A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov to 13 years in jail on corruption charges.Ivanov, who had actually managed military building jobs given that his 2016 consultation, was arrested in April 2024.
His case marked the start of a larger Kremlin-led crackdown on corruption within the Defense Ministry, which has actually seen the arrests of several other high-ranking officers.Initially charged with bribery, district attorneys later on implicated Ivanov of embezzling 4.1 billion rubles ($52.4 million) through foreign bank transfers and an extra 216 million rubles ($2.7 million) during the purchase of 2 ferries for a crossing in between Russia and annexed Crimea.In addition to prison time, the Moscow City Court fined the 49-year-old ex-defense official 100 million rubles ($1.2 million) and stripped him of his state awards, the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported.
Court hearings in the case had actually been held behind closed doors since March.Prosecutors had actually looked for a 14.5-year prison sentence.Independent journalist FaridaRustamova saidIvanovs sentence is the longestfor a current or previous high-ranking Russian government authorities in contemporary history.The court in Moscow also sentenced Anton Filatov, the former head of the Defense Ministry subsidiary Oboronlogistika, to 12.5 years in prison.Nicknamed the attractive general in Russian media, Ivanov is the most senior military main jailed considering that the 2022 intrusion of Ukraine.
He was widely thought about a close ally of ex-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was dismissed in May 2024 and designated secretary of Russias Security Council.In 2018, Forbes Russia ranked Ivanov among the most affluent members of the nations military and security elite, approximating his households net worth at 136.7 million rubles ($1.5 million).
Ivanov has been under U.S.
and EU sanctions since 2022 due to his function managing military building in the Defense Ministry.
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