The court arrested an officer from the Department for State Procurement of the Moscow Region Verteletsky
Vladimir Verteletsky, an officer in the Department for Providing State Defense Orders of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was arrested by the court. The official representative of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko, reported this to Lenta.ru.
The investigation requested his detention.
According to the Investigative Committee, Verteletsky has been charged with abuse of official powers in the implementation of a state defense order. Previously, in 2022, he accepted uncompleted work under a government contract as part of development work, as a result of which the state suffered damage in the amount of 70 million rubles.
The detention of a high-ranking officer of the Russian Ministry of Defense became known earlier on May 23.
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