On April 10, the 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow found former Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Pavel Popov guilty of embezzling 25.8 million rubles from "Patriot Park" and sentenced him to 19 years in a maximum-security penal colony.
Modern.az reports that, according to "Kommersant", he was fined 85 million rubles, stripped of his rank as army general, and deprived of state awards - 7 orders and 1 medal.
The court also confiscated 45.6 million rubles, an amount equivalent to the bribe he received, to the state.
The Investigative Committee charged the general with five crimes: large-scale fraud (Article 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code), official forgery (Article 292, Part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code), particularly large-scale bribery (Article 290, Part 6 of the Russian Criminal Code), as well as abuse of official authority and illegal arms trafficking (Article 286, Part 3, Article 222, Part 1 of the Russian Criminal Code).
