Fmr Russian Deputy Defense Minister, Bulgakov arrested on corruption charges

General Dmitry Bulgakov, a former Russian Deputy Defense Minister, has been detained in connection with a corruption investigation, according to the Russian Federal Security Service.

The general, is currently being held at the Butyrka prison center in Moscow, according to local reports.

Since 2008, Bulgakov has been Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister, and in 2011, he was promoted to General of the Army.

He is also a Hero of Russia. Bulgakov managed the Russian military’s logistics and technological support.

Since April, senior Ministry of Defense personnel have been held in custody.

Timur Ivanov, the deputy minister of defense, was detained at the time on suspicion of bribery. Within the Defense Ministry, Ivanov was in charge of property relations and building contracts. In relation to Ivanov’s case, Anton Filatov, Alexander Fomin, and Sergey Borodin were also taken into custody.

In May, General-Lieutenant Yuri Kuznetsov, Head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Defense Ministry, General-Lieutenant Vadim Shamarin, Head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces and Deputy Chief of the General Staff, and Vladimir Verteletsky, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense for state defense order support, were detained on bribery charges. The former Commander of the 58th Army, Major General Ivan Popov, was also detained in May on fraud charges.

Andrei Belkov, the former CEO of the Russian Defense Ministry’s public-law Military Construction Company, was seized in Moscow on July 24.

He was accused of abuse of power while carrying out a state defense mandate, especially the purchase of a CT scanner at inflated costs.

Belkov was apprehended the next day. According to the allegations, the crime occurred in 2019, while he was still in charge of another military unit, the “Main Military Construction Directorate (GVSU) for Special Objects.” Belkov moved to the Military Construction Company in 2021.