The military investigation suspects the deputy chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, head of the Main Communications Directorate, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, of receiving bribes from the general director and chief accountant of the Perm Telephone Plant Telta OJSC, Investigative Committee reports.
According to security officials, from 2016 to 2023, General Shamarin received 36 million rubles for “increasing the volume of products supplied under government contracts for the needs of the Russian Ministry of Defense and general patronage.” […]
TASS, 05.23.2024, “Director of the Telta plant Vysokov and accountant Grishina testified against General Shamarin”: General Director of the Perm Telephone Plant Telta OJSC Alexey Vysokov and the chief accountant of the same company Elena Grishina testified against the head of the Main Directorate of Communications of the RF Armed Forces, General Vadim Shamarin, who was arrested for taking a bribe. Law enforcement agencies reported this to TASS on Thursday. – Insert K.ru
The Perm Telephone Plant produces telephones and switches for special communication networks of officials (for example, Prestige-PS) and military field telephones (TA-57, TA-88 or TA-116). The latest security forces call “Tapik” or “Call to Moscow / Call to Putin (*international criminal)” – such devices are used in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to torture people under investigation with electric shock. For example, residents of Chechnya, political prisoners and anti-war activists spoke about their use in torture. The defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus were also tortured with such a device, then the security forces themselves made public photos of torture.
From the files of arbitration courts it follows that since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense has filed at least 10 lawsuits against the Perm Telephone Plant for disrupting the supply of military field telephones and special communications equipment, “Important Stories” found. The total amount of claims is at least 20.4 million rubles. The texts of some decisions are not available. […]
@CorruptionTV, 05.23.2024 15:30: Since there is no information about the detained Deputy Chief of the General Staff Vadim Shamarin, we need to tell you a little about him.
For 2021, the last time the Ministry of Defense published information about the income of its officers, can seethat Shamarin was almost a beggar by the standards of the Ministry of Armor (3 million rubles in income per year, a share in an apartment of 82 sq.m. and an apartment of 37 sq.m.). Already in 2022, when he was confirmed as Deputy Chief of the General Staff, his wife Elizaveta Shamarina got a brand new MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE 53 4MATIC, which now costs 18 million rubles.
It’s not so simple with the general’s apartments either. His family sued the Ministry of Defense for an 82 sq.m apartment in Podolsk on Akademika Dollezhal Street. The second apartment in Khabarovsk, in the area of DOS Shamarins, was also sued earlier, but from the Khabarovsk administration. In general, placing a general in public housing was very dangerous; everything became the personal property of his family.
Everything is fun with the general's family too. The eldest son became an officer and serves as a military hacker (information security specialist) in the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, which is located in the next building from the Main Communications Directorate of the RF Armed Forces, where his dad sat. Probably also an accident. — Insertion K.ru
Life.Ru, 05.23.2024, “The General’s Share: What is known about the arrest of the chief communications officer of the Russian Ministry of Defense Shamarin”: Earlier, information appeared on the Internet that Vadim Shamarin lives in Podolsk, in an apartment with an area of 85 square meters, but it seems that he has not been there for a long time. Now the general’s family can be found in the Khoroshevsky district of the capital, on Polina Osipenko Street. Here, the serviceman’s relatives occupy two adjacent apartments on the 10th floor of one of the new high-rise buildings: a three-ruble apartment with an area of 72 square meters and a one-room apartment with an area of 36 square meters. A three-room apartment of the same area in this building costs about 25 million rubles, a one-room apartment will cost 11–12 million.
In addition, the general’s wife Elizaveta was also registered in a two-room apartment of 45 square meters on Shturvalnaya Street – this is in the capital’s South Tushino. The wife loves prestigious cars; the Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe AMG 53 sports car is registered to her. Now the market value of such a car in 2021 is about 12 million rubles. — Insert K.ru
KP.Ru, 05.23.2024, “Why the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense was detained: Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin was arrested”: 15 years ago I wrote in Komsomolskaya Pravda, how two colonels made money by trading joint frequencies for civilian telecom operators. When they came to search one of them, he asked to go to the toilet and stayed there for a suspiciously long time. They opened the door, and he tore up the notebook and threw it into the toilet.
They got it, and there was shadow accounting. To whom, when and how much. They couldn't work without a roof. So in the notebook there was also a surname that coincided with the then deputy chief of the General Staff, chief of communications of the Armed Forces.
“For general patronage of commercial activities,” the colonel explained in his testimony then.
Is this scheme still alive in one form or another? However, let's wait for official comments from the investigation.
By the way, 5 years ago, charges of fraud were brought against General Shamarin’s predecessor in the position of chief communications officer – General Khalil Arslanov. Then two episodes of particularly large fraud were revealed in the total amount of about 6.7 billion rubles.
According to investigators, Arslanov stole funds during the execution of a government contract for the maintenance and repair of special military equipment. — Insert K.ru