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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been arrested. Officially, he has been charged with bribery, but unofficially there’s talk of treason and Kremlin power struggles.
The recent arrest of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has rocked the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), marking the most significant scandal since the dismissal of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov in November 2012 over corruption charges, according to a British MoD intelligence update on April 25.
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested on charges of high treason, not merely corruption as initially reported, according to two independent sources cited by the Russian news outlet Vazhnye Istorii on April 24.