(8 Oct 2024)
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Moscow, Russia – 8 October 2024
1. Various of former head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s personnel directorate Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov in glass cage in court room reading papers
2. Police officer
3. Wide of Kuznetsov in glass cage
4. Close of handcuffs
5. Lawyers
6. Close of Kuznetsov
7. Kuznetsov and lawyers standing up for verdict
8. Close of Kuznetsov listening to verdict, UPSOUND (Russian) judge, no name given: “(The court decided) to extend the term of detention for the accused Yury Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, born on March 7, 1969 in the city of Ruzaevka, Mordovian ASSR, a citizen of the Russian Federation, previously unconvicted, for three months, and in total 7 months and 29 days, that is, until January 12, 2025”
9. End of court hearing
10. Various of court exteriors
11. Nameplate reading (Russian): “235th Garrison Military Court”
12. People at court entrance
STORYLINE:
A military court in Moscow on Tuesday extended the arrest of a senior Russian defense official, who was jailed on bribery charges in May.
The court ordered that the pre-trial detention of Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov be extended for three more months till Jan. 12, 2025.
Kuznetsov, the 55-year-old chief of the Defense Ministry’s main personnel directorate, was arrested in a raid on his suburban Moscow villa, Russian media reported.
He was detained on charges of bribery and jailed pending an investigation and trial, according to the Investigative Committee, Russia’s top state criminal investigation agency.
Kuznetsov is accused of accepting an “exceptionally large bribe,” a charge punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The committee alleged he received the bribe in his previous post as head of the military General Staff’s directorate in charge of preserving state secrets, a position he held for 13 years.
In the raid, agents of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, broke down the doors and windows of his home while he was asleep, the reports said, seizing gold coins, luxury items and over 100 million rubles (just over $1 million) in cash.
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