Mitigation of the preventive measure for the director of the Patriot Park, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, Vyacheslav Akhmedov (the court today released him from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest), on the basis of whose testimony a criminal case was opened against Sergei Shoigu’s ex-deputy Pavel Popov (the latter was arrested on August 29 on charges of especially large-scale fraud), is a kind of signal for military and paramilitary personnel involved in high-profile corruption criminal cases in the military department. If you give the evidence “necessary” to the investigation against your superiors, then you can count on a softening of your own fate.
No less indicative in this regard is the example of businessman Igor Kotelnikov, who was involved in a criminal case regarding a particularly large embezzlement of funds from the Ministry of Defense when supplying dry rations produced by the Gryazinsky Food Plant (GPK) to the troops, together with Alexander Mikhailenko, Valery Kovalevich and Elvira Smirnova, as well as former deputy Shoigu Dmitry Bulgakov. The businessman died suddenly in the punishment cell of the Moscow pre-trial detention center-4 “Bear” in mid-July.
As Kotelnikov’s son Sergei told the Cheka-OGPU, the security forces, in collusion with the administration of the detention center, “starved” his father, trying to get from him the necessary testimony against ex-Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov. Apparently, Kotelnikov Sr. did not give any evidence against Ivanov.
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The Cheka-OGPU became aware of details from the case of 52-year-old businessman Igor Kotelnikov, who was found dead in the punishment cell of pre-trial detention center-4 in Moscow. They wanted him to testify against Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, and to “compliance” they sent him to a punishment cell, where he…
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