Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Russia has arrested Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov on organised corruption charges in the most high-profile case since the start of the country’s all-out war on Ukraine. A brief statement by Russia’s Investigative Committee citing a statute for accepting bribes ‘on a particularly large scale’ said on Wednesday that the arrest was made a day earlier. State media showed brief footage of the military official standing in a Moscow court. He faces 15 years in prison if convicted.” (04/24/24)