Former top Russian military official gets 7 years in penal colony for taking bribes

Reuters - 17/04
The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
Vadim Shamarin, a lieutenant-general, is one of a string of top officials charged in a series of corruption scandals that have engulfed the highest echelons of the Russian military establishment over the past year.

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The prosecutions signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to clamp down on graft, inefficiency and waste in Russia's huge military budget as it wages war in Ukraine for a fourth year.
Russia's Investigative Committee said Shamarin, 53, took bribes worth 36 million roubles ($440,000) between 2019 and 2023 from a factory in the Ural mountains that produces communications...
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