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A Russian military court has rejected a request to transfer Major General Ivan Popov to house arrest and ruled to keep him in pre-trial detention for two months, the independent news website Mediazonareported Monday.Popov, whose May 17arrest was first reported last week, is accused of misappropriating more than 130 million rubles ($1.5 million) worth of metal purchased as humanitarian aid by Russian occupying authorities in southern Ukraines Zaporizhzhia region.Investigators last weekasked the 235th Garrison Military Courtto move him to house arrest, but the request was rejected during a hearing on Monday and the general will be kept in pre-trial detention for at least two months.Popov previously oversaw the defense of Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia as commander of the 58th Guards Combined Arms Army.He was relieved from that post last summer after complaining about systemic mismanagement within the armed forces directly to the militarys top brass.On Friday, another military courtrejected the defenses appeal of Popovs arrest at a closed-door hearingPopov is among five senior Russian military officers to have been arrested on various charges since late April.Sources close to the Kremlin and Russias Defense Ministrytold The Moscow Times that the arrests are part of an ongoing Federal Security Service (FSB) purge of high-ranking generals over mishaps during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as well as competition for defense funds.
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