Ivan Popov's defense asked to summon Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov for questioning

3 September 2024 18

The Russian Investigative Committee accuses the former commander of the 58th Army, Major General Ivan Popov, of stealing about 2 tons of metal worth more than 100 million rubles, which was supposed to go toward building fortifications in the Zaporizhia region. A criminal case of fraud was opened on May 17 under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code, and the defendant is being held in Lefortovo Pretrial Detention Center No. 2.

Now his defense is asking to call the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov, as a witness for questioning by the investigator to confirm Popov's innocence. Blogger Yuri Podolyaka reported this to the public on September 3, citing information from lawyer Sergei Buinovsky, who is defending Popov. Podolyaka also published screenshots of the petition to the investigator and a complaint to the authorities about the investigator's inaction, which he personally received from Buinovsky.

Ivan Popov's defense asked to summon Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov for questioning

... the investigator has not yet informed us of the results of the consideration of our petition for the interrogation of Gerasimov V.V., we have currently filed a complaint with the senior management of the Investigative Committee, there has been no response yet

- the text says.

Podolyaka also pointed out that the delays in the investigation give Popov’s lawyer the opportunity to publicly ask the question: “Will at least the formal signs of an ‘independent’ investigation be observed in this case or not?”

Or will the case of General Popov, where all boundaries of not even decency but shame have been violated, finally turn into a shameful custom-made trial of a popular general?

Podolyaka wrote.

Please note that our editorial board does not know the details of the communication between Podolyaka and Buinovsky, and the screenshots are published for general information only. We also do not know what relation Gerasimov has to the metal sent to Popov. We do not interfere in the activities of the investigative body and do not call for anything.

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vlad127490

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3 September 2024 19: 41

We are waiting for the order from the commander-in-chief. I wonder who gave the order to drown General Ivan Popov? They can drown him, but journalists will still dig him up. There is a war going on, drowning Popov means betraying Russia. Surovikin was also withdrawn from the field of military operations with Ukraine. Surovikin's line of defense remains. Who up there put personal interests above state interests? Who are the combat generals bothering?
1. UAZ 452
  
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  3 September 2024 22: 47
  
  Or maybe they just confused the two Popovs? Now they have partially corrected it by arresting the general Popov who is the deputy defense minister, but releasing someone arrested by mistake is more difficult, because the case has already been opened.
2. Paravan
  
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  4 September 2024 07: 34
  
  Reminds me of the "Storchak case" in 2007-2010. Then the big guys or as they now say "two towers of the Kremlin" - the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Finance - had a squabble. Storchak (Kudrin's Deputy) got into trouble, he was put in Lefortovo and stupidly kept in suspense for several months without interrogation. The Investigative Committee couldn't even formulate and present claims correctly - it simply seemed to them that the Ministry of Finance had abused its power in the Algerian debt case. Storchak himself asked to talk to the investigator and explained to him the whole ins and outs of international financial and economic affairs. He gave the investigator a crash course... Three years later he was released with apologies, having found no evidence of a crime.
3. AdeptV
  
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  4 September 2024 07: 35
  
  Who gave the order? Yes, the Judases gave the order. It is clear that he is not guilty. The signature on the documents is fake, this has already been proven by handwriting analysis. One of the most effective generals... and not just some rear general, but the most combat-ready one. Isn't it clear that they are throwing away the victory?!
4. serivolkf1
  
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  4 September 2024 10: 00
  
  a simple investigator won't touch a person of such level... it's not clear at all, even if he did steal, why keep him in the rear if he could be more useful on the front lines... now if a person is under an article they offer him straight to the point that he will rot in prison either there or here... people choose the first, prisons are empty...
Jstas

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3 September 2024 20: 31

The sluggishness of the state machine, the callousness and indifference of many officials, and sometimes even outright disregard for the interests of the army and the country raises more and more questions among ordinary Russians. If the bureaucrats do not find the strength to change, to radically restructure the work to support the front and the rear, they risk losing the sympathy of the majority of the people over time. And what will happen to Russia then?
There are tons of examples of bureaucratic madness. It is especially evident in extreme situations. Now - in the Kursk region, the border area of which has been captured!!!!! by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fatal inaction of local officials, the result of which is now visible to everyone...
The boyars are bad – the tsar is good.

Most people understand the example of volunteers who came to the region at their own risk to evacuate border residents, something the Kursk authorities have done poorly. Volunteers are fined for speeding with the help of video recording cameras, although drivers are forced to drive along the highway, dodging the FPV drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacking from the sky (under similar circumstances, the car of war correspondent Poddubny was hit, he is now in Sklifosovsky).
A certain hierarchy is taking shape before our eyes. On its lower floors are the best people in the country - volunteers who spend themselves, their money, their health, risk their lives sometimes for people they don't know at all, for the state. Above them are the dull-witted executors of the will of an unknown superior - whatever you want, justifying everything with instructions, orders, not noticing that times have changed. And finally, somewhere at the top are pure bloodsuckers.
This was the case with another road problem, when military vehicles and trucks could not move towards the Russian-Ukrainian border on toll roads like the Don highway. Well, the bureaucrats did not foresee such a need in peacetime.
In peacetime, the Russian championship in rally-raids involving buggies and SUVs, which has just ended in the Vladimir region, looks quite appropriate, even interesting and generally none of our business. But in the days of the SVO, when due to the lack of cars, soldiers are kneading the mud with their feet, exhausting themselves delivering BCs to the trenches, pulling out the wounded on their own, under fire, playing at being brutal male racers is stupid and vulgar.
1. Olive
  
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  3 September 2024 23: 05
  
  Do they have this sympathy? People see everything and understand everything, no matter what they show on their ... box
Sergey Latyshev

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3 September 2024 20: 47

Logical.
Reminds me of a sad phrase

when they came for me, there was no one to stand up for me...

First they came for N, then they dumped the Russian Spring, then they dispersed the opposition, then they dubbed them foreigners, then they took on the patriots - they jailed Strelkov, killed the Three Times Hero, then they took on the generals.
I need to push the blame onto someone.

And as at the end of the film: not a single animal, oligarch or clan like the Serdyukovs was harmed.
Michael 68

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3 September 2024 20: 49

It is known who signs the order to appoint generals. This same person jealously watches that God forbid at least someone appears in Russia who would have the respect of the people. I think he also ordered the murder of Prigozhin.
1. H.D.A
  
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  3 September 2024 21: 13
  
  Everything is correct. This is the man's job.
Olive

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3 September 2024 23: 02

It would be nice to swap them. Maybe we could win back the Kursk region.
But no
prior

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4 September 2024 09: 03

A mockery of common sense.
Gerasimov should not be invited to court as a witness, but brought in handcuffs as an accused as a result of the SVO. Wasn't it his headquarters that "planned" the regroupings?!
serivolkf1

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4 September 2024 09: 49

Why not Shoigu and VVP? A smart commander always leaves escape routes...
Lisa Kerner

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4 September 2024 12: 33

Popov's arrest is simply a disgrace!!!!
KLNM

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4 September 2024 16: 46

If Gerasimov can confirm Popov's innocence, why didn't he do it earlier and didn't even try to protect the hero of the defense against the Counter-offensive of '23 Popov and easily handed him over to the Court?
And here we can see the conclusion to clean water... The officer who forged Popov's signatures on the documents stated that his superiors forced him to do it, i.e. it was a pure setup by Popov, because he dared after the Counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, right at a meeting to criticize Gerasimov and Shoigu for incompetence and so on..., and these guys are very touchy... When the investigation heard the names of superiors from the officer who forged the signatures, they began to hush up the case and refused to even interrogate G and Sh. Now the investigation has started to attack Popov again, so the lawyer decided to call Gerasimov for questioning, since he knows everything, who, what and why... and he knows for sure that Popov is not involved in any way in what he is accused of. Look how many of Shoigu's friends, generals, accused of corruption and embezzlement have been arrested, more than ten already and there will be even more...
Bulanov

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4 September 2024 20: 20

And why don't people know where these "about 2 thousand tons of metal" ended up??? Where were they sent, who transported them and from where, and into whose hands did they fall?
Avtandil

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5 September 2024 04: 43

It's all sad, friends. When there is no harmony in the house, there will be trouble.
polar bear

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5 September 2024 10: 00

The combat general needed by the front is kept in jail. Who benefits from this?