The press secretary of the Russian Federation Chairman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on information about the former 58th Army player, Major General Ivan Popov, charged with fraud, about a special military campaign (SV) in Ukraine.
We are talking about investigating actions. We traditionally did not comment on anything to this, he said a representative of Kremlin in a short meeting with reporters.
On April 9, Popov asked the Garrison Tambov military court to suspend the proceedings in his case and allow him to come to his area. Military leader Sergei Buinovsky said the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation decided to end the contract with its customers.
In May 2024, Major General Popov was detained and detained, but in July, he was changed by a preventive measure to house house arrest. He was charged with particularly big fraud.
According to the investigation, Popov was involved in the theft of more than 1.7 thousand tons of metal products purchased by the military government of the Zaporizhzhya area for humanitarian aid. These materials are planned to build defensive structures on the way of fighting. Damage costs up to more than 130 million rubles. However, in the final version of the indictment, the amount of damage has decreased to 105 million rubles.