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2024: Two FSB colonels sentenced to prison terms for bribes from Roman Catholic priests
In mid-August 2024, it became known that the 235th Garrison Military Court (GVS) of the city of Moscow sentenced colonels of the second FSB service (unit for the protection of the constitutional system) Yevgeny Lobanov and Denis Karmanov to prison terms for bribes on an especially large scale. They received money from priests of the Roman Catholic Church for patronage in the system of arbitration courts and state authorities. Read more here.