According to investigators, the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Timur Ivanov and Head of the Main Personnel Department Yuri Kuznetsov received bribes. The only difference is their size – 30 million and 1 billion. What wealth did the generals acquire?
What kind of bribes are the generals charged with?
High ranks of the Ministry of Defense Timur Ivanov and Yuri Kuznetsov were charged under the same article – Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale).
According to the investigation, the first was given a free bribe to build several properties worth about a billion rubles; the second received a plot of land worth 7.5 million rubles and a house built on it for 23 million – only 30 million rubles. In total, according to investigators, Ivanov received 33.3 times more than Kuznetsov. Despite this, everyone faces the same sentence – up to 15 years in prison.
What did Ministry of Defense officials do while on duty?
In his position, Timur Ivanov oversaw issues of construction, military mortgages, reconstruction and overhaul of Ministry of Defense facilities. He was responsible for property management and troop quartering, housing and medical support for the Russian Armed Forces.
Recently, the deputy minister oversaw the restoration of Mariupol. When the pandemic began, it was Ivanov who was responsible for the construction of multifunctional medical centers of the Ministry of Defense for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.
Yuri Kuznetsov, for obvious reasons, is a less public figure – for 13 years (from 2010 to 2023) he headed the Eighth Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the military control body of the Russian Army, which heads the Service for the Protection of State Secrets.
It is known that the criminal case opened against him dates back to that period of service. According to the investigation, it was then that Kuznetsov decided to receive “a bribe from representatives of commercial structures for performing certain actions in their favor.” This representative, according to investigators, was an acquaintance of the official – a businessman Leva Martirosyan.
For the last year (since May last year), Kuznetsov headed the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The general publicly noted himself in this position at the beginning of April 2024 – then he presented state awards, certificates of completion of additional vocational education courses and military ranks to the participants of the Northern Military District at the Moscow Vishnevsky Rehabilitation and Educational Center.
What kind of property did Timur Ivanov acquire during his years of service?
General Ivanov is still registered in his parents’ two-room apartment near the River Station in Moscow, worth less than 10 million rubles, while there is information that his family could use a spacious mansion on Rublyovka. In addition, Life.ru found out that his beloved women live luxuriously.
One of the daughters can occupy a two-level duplex of three hundred square meters in the restored building of the historical Savyolov estate. Perhaps this particular property (the same size and floor) is now sells for 285 million rubles on specialized portals. We are talking about the lanes of Ostozhenka, the most expensive quarter of Moscow.
Already ex-wife – Svetlana Ivanova (nee Zakharova, after her first husband Maniovich) even before the divorce, she took over a mansion with an area of 317 square meters. meters in a house – an architectural monument on Povarskaya Street in the vicinity of Arbat. Similar real estate was recently put up for sale for 303 million rubles.
In addition, the couple regularly visited Saint-Tropez and each time lived there for at least a month. There the couple rented the villa MANGUEIRA for about six thousand euros per day, as well as a yacht for 11 thousand euros per day.
What investigators found during searches of Kuznetsov
During searches at Yuri Kuznetsov's addresses, investigators found 100 million rubles in cash, gold coins and other luxury items. Life.ru found out that the general’s main place of residence is an apartment in the elite residential complex “Smolenskaya Zastava” in Ruzheyny Lane – in the very center of Moscow on Arbat.
In addition to the head of the family, his wife and two daughters are registered in the property with an area of 156.5 square meters. Built in 2009, the residential complex is very popular among high-ranking federal officials, top managers of state corporations and large businessmen. Nowadays, even noticeably smaller apartments in this residential complex are sold at a price of about 140 million rubles.
Another apartment is located in the capital’s Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district. On General Glagolev Street there is housing with an area of 57.1 square meters. meters. At one time, one of the general’s daughters often appeared there.
The General's dacha, where Kuznetsov was detained, is located in the Istra district in the premium cottage village “Millennium Park”.
A good-quality two-story brick house and a smaller guest house with an area of 85 square meters. meters – built on a plot of three thousand square meters, combined from two smaller areas. At least half of the land was registered in the name of Kuznetsov’s mother-in-law, Lyudmila Vasilenko. Now the value of real estate in this place reaches 250 million rubles.
The general’s family has movable property: a premium BMW X5 SUV, which he has driven since 2012. Now the car is in a garage at the dacha, its current market value is about 3 million rubles.
His wife has a budget sedan Nsan Tiida, the market value of which is about 920 thousand rubles, as well as the same plot with a house in the Krasnodar region worth a total of 30 million rubles, which, according to the investigation, was a “gift” from Leva Martirosyan.