Vadim Shamarin, Timur Ivanov, Ivan Popov, Yuri Kuznetsov – what is known, details, biographies – May 24, 2024 – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia We tell you why high-ranking military officers were arrested Source: Structure.mil.ru The head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant Vadim Shamarin, was arrested. A criminal case was opened against him on suspicion of fraud, RBC was told in the 235th garrison military court. The general's house has already been searched. Shamarin was taken for questioning to the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The case of his arrest will be considered in the 235th garrison military court. There have been no official comments regarding Shamarin's arrest. Several senior Defense Ministry officials have been arrested over the past month. In this material we will tell you in detail what is known about them and what they are accused of. Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov was the first to be arrested. He is suspected of receiving a large bribe - the amount amounted to more than a billion rubles Source: Structure.mil.ru Timur Ivanov was born on August 15, 1975 in Moscow. Father - Vadim Gennadievich Ivanov, since 2004 - General Director of Crystal Development LLC, engaged in the production of parts for electronic tubes. Ivanov graduated from the Faculty of Computer Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University, and then worked in various commercial organizations and organizations. Cybernetic industry In 2012, Ivanov was appointed to the position of vice-president of the government of the Moscow region - the governor of the region was then ex-Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. In 2016, Timur Ivanov replaced Alexey Dyumin as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, who became the governor of the Tula region. He was involved in the management of property and quartering of military personnel, housing and medical support for the Russian armed forces, and was also responsible for the construction, reconstruction and audit of facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and military mortgages were included in Ivanov’s list. the richest security officials in Russia according to Forbes. In 2018, his income amounted to 13.6 million rubles. His wife Svetlana Zakharova owns the fashion group Metropol. The woman was also the host of the program “Take It Off Now!” on the STS TV channel Source: zakharova_sveta/Instagram (activity is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation) Arrested for two months, Timur Ivanov lived in a noble farm of the 19th century from the novel “The Master and Margarita”. Clean lane. An MSK1.RU correspondent visited this mansion and found out what happened there on the day of the searches. Together with deputy Shoigu, his friend, businessman Sergei Borodin, was also arrested. According to investigators, he took the money together with a high-ranking official. The chief signalman of the Russian Army, 52-year-old Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was born in 1971 in Taganrog, Rostov region. In 1992 he graduated from the Novocherkassk Higher Military Command School of Communications, in 2006 from the Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal Budyonny, in 2016 from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Since 1992, Vadim Shamarin served in the Far East. East. He held the positions of commander of a radio control platoon of a radio node, deputy head of a radio center for technical issues, head of a channel system center, deputy head of a node - head of a communications control point, chief of staff - deputy head of a communications center and head of a communications center (field) of a communications brigade. The Eastern Military District includes the Far Eastern District of Russia, the Republics of Buryatia and Sakha (Yakutia), Transbaikalia, Kamchatka, Primorsky, etc. Khabarovsk Territory, Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, Jewish Autonomous Region and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. In 2006, Shamarin was appointed deputy commander of the communications brigade of the Eastern Military District. He has been in command since December 2009. And since 2010, he worked as deputy chief of staff of the Eastern Military District for communications. In 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev appointed him to the post of chief of communications of the Eastern Military District. Under Shamarin, the district's command posts in the Eastern Military District were re-equipped and the "planned transition to digital telecommunications equipment" was completed. advanced means of communication." Vadim Shamarin was appointed deputy head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces in 2016. He became the head of this department in 2020. At this time, networks and information technologies are being introduced into the army. In addition to working in the Russian army, Shamarin headed the coordination committee of the chiefs of the armed forces of the CIS countries. He traveled to conferences in Armenia, Tajikistan and other countries. The general held this position until today, when Shamarin was awarded the order. Badge “For Services to the Fatherland,” II degree. The lieutenant general is married and has a 12-year-old son with his wife Elizabeth. According to media reports, he owns an apartment in the Moscow region, where he is registered with a statement. Lieutenant General, from the one published in 2018 it follows that he had three apartments: with an area of 82, 42.8 and 37 square meters. One of them is located in the center of Moscow, not far from the Ministry of Defense building on the street. Frunzenskaya Embankment For vacation, the family chose resorts on the Black Sea coast. We vacationed in Sochi and Crimea, stayed in five-star all-inclusive hotels Source: Elizaveta Shamarina / Instagram* (activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) On May 23, it became known about Shamarin’s arrest. However, rumors about investigative actions appeared within a few days. Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk (Rybar telegram channel) linked Shamarin’s arrest with the case of his predecessor Khalil Arslanov, who was arrested in 2020. MSK1.RU spoke in more detail about this in a separate article, the Investigative Committee reported. suspected of bribery in the amount of 36 million rubles. On May 14, the chief personnel officer of the Ministry of Defense arrested the head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Yuri Kuznetsov. On the same day, searches were carried out at his home and work. The lieutenant general was accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale Source: Structure.mil.ru According to the Ministry of Defense website, in 1990 Kuznetsov graduated from the Krasnodar Higher Military School named after Army General S.M. Shtemenko. Then he entered the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, and then continued his studies at the Military Academy of the Main Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (graduated in 2005). After that, he began working in various positions in the service for the protection of state secrets. Yuri Kuznetsov was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky “For Military Merit” and others. He is an Honored Military Specialist of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Technical Sciences. According to the website declarator.org, Kuznetsov’s official income for 2019 amounted to 4,545,940.09 million rubles. He owns a plot of land with an area of 1,500 square meters, part of an apartment with an area of 156.5 square meters and non-residential premises with an area of 33.6 square meters. He also registered Toyota Corolla, BMW X5 and GAZ 21R cars. Ivan Popov On May 17, the ex-commander of the 58th Army, Ivan Popov, was arrested. Popov was removed from command of the 58th Army in July 2023. Then he took part in hostilities in the Zaporozhye direction of the Northern Military District. Ivan Ivanovich Popov was born on January 30, 1975 in a small village in the Volgograd region. In 1992 he entered the Moscow Higher Military Command School. After graduating from university, Popov became a platoon commander of the 56th Air Assault Regiment of the North Caucasus Military District and participated in the Second Chechen Campaign at the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces. troops, after which he was sent to the operational department of the headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District. In 2008, he took part in the Russian-Georgian conflict. Popov also served at the National Defense Management Center. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Popov was appointed commander of the 33rd separate motorized rifle brigade in Adygea, and then commander of the 20th separate guards motorized rifle brigade. in Volgograd and the head of the Volgograd military garrison, Popov was considered one of the fastest growing commanders of the Russian Ground Forces - by May 2018, he held the position of chief of staff of the 22nd Army of the Black Sea Fleet and in. At the same time, the head of the Simferopol military garrison Until 2023, Ivan Popov became the commander of the 58th Guards Army, its control is located in Vladikavkaz. On July 13 of the same year, State Duma deputy and member of the Defense Committee Andrei Gurulev published an appeal from Ivan Popov on his Telegram channel, in which the major general said that he had a “difficult situation with senior leadership.” The Investigative Committee announced the arrest of another Defense Ministry official. We are talking about the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense department for ensuring state defense orders, Vladimir Verteletsky.…
