Numerous top officials at the Russian Defense Ministry and general staff have been detained since April.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ramped up his war machine purge with new arrests this week.Vladimir Pavlov, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry's procurement arm, JSC Voentorg, was detained and accused of fraud, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs said, state-run news agency Tass reported on Thursday.JSC Voentorg is a contractor of the Russian Defense Ministry and provides catering and laundry services for the Russian army.
Separately on Thursday, Sergei Sukhov, a prominent manager of a military construction company, was arrested in an embezzlement case, RBC reported.Previously, Andrei Belkov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Military Construction Company, had been accused of abuse of power in the execution of a state defense order.
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