The director of the Russian military’s main congress center and a top Defense Ministry official have been arrested on fraud charges, part of a sweeping probe into abuse of office in the top echelons of the country’s military leadership.
MOSCOW — The director of the Russian military’s main congress center and a top Defense Ministry official were arrested Monday on fraud charges, part of a sweeping probe intoThe Investigative Committee, Russia’s top state criminal investigation agency, announced that Vyacheslav Akhmedov, head of the Patriot Park was arrested on charges of fraud. Maj. Gen. Vladimir Shesterov, deputy head of the Defense Ministry’s innovations department, was detained along with Akhmedov.
The committee said the two men are suspected of embezzling government funds earmarked for the Patriot Park, a gigantic military exhibition and congress center just west of Moscow. The venue, which covers an area of more than 5,400 hectares , has hosted annual army forums, international meetings and displays of Russian weapons since it opened in 2015. Along with conference halls and sprawling exhibition grounds, it includes an air base, a massive firing range and even a huge Orthodox Church. In 2019, President Vladimir Putin made a donation from his own money to commission the church’s main icon, according to the Kremlin.
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