Shamarin Vadim Anatolyevich

Shamarin Vadim Anatolyevich

Biography

2024: Detention

On May 23, 2024, it became known that the deputy head of the General Staff, the head of the Main Communications Directorate (GUS) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, was sent into custody. He was detained in a criminal case of alleged fraud.

According to Kommersant the newspaper "," Shamarin was charged with taking a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in the period from April 2016 to October 2023, the general received a bribe of 36 million rubles from the general director of Perm Telt Telephone Plant OJSC Alexei Vysokov and the chief accountant of the organization Elena Grishina. It is said that this is a reward "for increasing the volume of products supplied under government contracts for needs Ministry of Defence Russia and general patronage." Shamarin, according to the investigation, ordered the money received at his discretion.

Shamarin's Moscow apartment was searched, but no large amounts of money, expensive watches and other valuables were found. At the same time, a Mercedes car worth 14 million rubles was seized, which was arrested "to pay off damage in a criminal case." As of May 23, 2024, the general was twice interrogated by an investigator of the TFR, and both times he pleaded not guilty.

Lieutenant General Shamarin categorically denied his guilt at two interrogations, telling the investigation in detail that he had nothing to do with the formation of orders for the Perm telephone plant, Kommersant notes.

It is also reported that Vysokov and Grishina did not act directly, but through intermediaries - brothers Alexei and Alexander Ogloblin, who are witnesses to the prosecution. The alleged bribe-givers Vysokova and Grishina themselves were detained for fraud: then they were arrested by the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow.^[1]

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