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]

Removal from office

Former head of the main communications department of the RF Armed Forces Vadim Shamarin, accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of more than 36 million rubles, was removed from office and removed from the state. On July 18, 2024, General's lawyer Igor Dyukin told about this.

He was removed from office back in May of this year and is currently listed at the General Staff, he said in a conversation with TASS.

source = Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant

According to Dyukin, the "withdrawn from the state" general will not receive a salary. The court also arrested the lieutenant general's car, his salary card was blocked, the defender added.

Shamarin bribes on an especially large scale (Article 290 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in the period from April 2016 to October 2023, he received 36 million rubles from the general director of Perm Telt Telephone Plant Alexei Vysokov and the chief accountant of the same company, Elena Grishina, for increasing the volume of products supplied under state contracts for the needs of the ministry and general patronage. Then this money was spent on his own needs, according to the Investigative Committee.

The investigation considers Alexander Ogloblin, the former head of the communications planning department of the main communications department of the Armed Forces, convicted of fraud in 2022, to be one of the intermediaries in the transfer of the bribe, Kommersant wrote in May 2024.

On July 18, 2024, the term of arrest of Vadim Shamarin was extended until October 21, 2024. The meeting was held behind closed doors, already according to the new tradition of the military court, a decision on this was made before the meeting, RIA Novosti notes.

Shamarin pleaded not guilty and linked his criminal prosecution with the fact that they wanted to remove him from office in this way. According to Dyukin, the general is ready to cooperate with the investigation, gives testimony and explanations on the case. Shamarin faces up to 15 years in prison.^[2]

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