The Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, knows nothing about the mansion in Rublyovka that was discovered in the possession of detained Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, and has not received any official information. A Kremlin representative told reporters on April 26.
“Naturally, an investigation is being carried out, so we cannot say to what extent this information corresponds to reality, it is not our prerogative”– he said.
Peskov asked to trust official information on this issue, answering a journalist’s question about Ivanov’s house valued at one billion rubles.
Recall that Ivanov was detained on April 23 on suspicion of large-scale bribery. The next day he was arrested. The accounts of the vice minister and his family were also frozen. On April 25, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu removed Ivanov from office.
Political scientist Sergei Markov stated that the first deputy head of the General Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Vladimir Alekseev, had long been collecting data on Ivanov that could have played a role in his arrest. .
Source: Rossa Primavera
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