Russia Arrests Generals in Charge of Moscow's Air Defenses

[Eugene]

Source: Newsweek

Russia Arrests Generals in Charge of Moscow's Air Defenses
BY BRENDAN COLE ON 9/7/23 AT 5:28 AM EDT

High-ranking Russian military officers have been arrested on corruption charges, according to state media reports.

News agency Tass reported on Wednesday that Major General Konstantin Ogienko, the former commander of the Special Purpose Air Defense Army which is in charge of Moscow's air defenses, had been detained.

Major General Dmitry Belyatsky, commander of Russia's 4th Air Defense Division, was also placed under house arrest.

The news agency said that a bribery investigation was underway into claims that at the end of June in the city of Dolgoprudny, in the Moscow Region, Belyatsky had received 500,000 roubles ($5,100) from the head of the Nadezhda organization on behalf of Ogienko.

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/bribery-russia-arrest-ogienko-belyatsky-1825205

[grumpyduck]

1. Or, they didn't do enough to protect Moscow.

[getagrip_already]

2. $5100?

That's an insulting amount. A private could steal more than that.

They are clearly arresting him for incompetence at being corrupt.