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| Lawyer Buinovsky: sending Major General Popov to the Special Military Operation zone will suspend the case |
| 2024-06-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The ex-commander of the 58th Army, Major General Ivan Popov, who was arrested in a case of major fraud, may be sent to the Northern Military District zone, in this case the criminal procedure code allows the investigation of the criminal case to be suspended, lawyer Sergei Buinovsky said on June 11. “A military leader of such a level as Popov should still be sitting at the front, and not in a detention center,” the lawyer told Izvestia. As Buinovsky explained, sending to the special operation zone will become possible if the commander of the Southern Military District sends a corresponding petition to the Investigative Committee. Popov was arrested on May 17 in a criminal case of fraud. He was accused of stealing more than 1.7 thousand tons of metal structures worth 130 million rubles, purchased to create a defense line in the Zaporozhye region. The major general was arrested until July 16 under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”). Popov denies any wrongdoing. In June, the 2nd Western District Military Court considered an appeal to change the preventive measure for Popov to house arrest. In addition to the defense, the prosecution also supported this, since he gave incriminating evidence against other participants in the theft. The court left the accused in custody. A court in Moscow, in the framework of the criminal case of Major General Ivan Popov, decided on June 10 to arrest a new defendant for two months. His identity was not revealed. It is known that the new defendant in the case was charged with the same thing. Popov’s father, in a conversation with IA Regnum, declared his son’s innocence. In his opinion, ill-wishers “dug” under the major general and set him up. |
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