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Russia Jails Ex-Deputy Defence Minister Ivanov for 13 Years on Graft Charges

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Updated Jul 2, 2025, 07:11 AM

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday sentenced former Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov to 13 years in a general-regime penal colony after finding him guilty of large-scale embezzlement and money laundering. Ivanov, who has been in custody since April 2024, denied the charges, and his lawyers said they would appeal.

State investigators said Ivanov and associates siphoned 4.1 billion rubles (about US$49 million), including funds for ferry purchases for the Kerch Strait and money taken from Interkommerts Bank. The court fined him 100 million rubles, stripped him of all state decorations and ordered the forfeiture to the state of roughly 2.5 billion rubles’ worth of property, vehicles and cash belonging to him and his family. Co-defendant Anton Filatov, a former logistics company chief, received a 12 ½-year term.

Ivanov, 49, oversaw construction and logistics contracts at the defence ministry from 2016 and was considered a close ally of former minister Sergei Shoigu. His case, heard behind closed doors on national-security grounds, is the most severe sentence yet in a widening anti-corruption campaign that has also ensnared several other senior defence officials as the Kremlin seeks tighter control over wartime military spending.

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