Defense Ministry Chief Personnel Officer Yuri Kuznetsov received a 12-year prison sentence for bribery.

The lieutenant general will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony.

Also from him collected more than 125 million rubles, confiscated a house in Krasnodar region and a plot of land. Furthermore, the court upheld the seizure of 14 previously seized wristwatches, jewelry, collectible coins, an officer's sword, and the "Lord Almighty" icon.

Yuri Kuznetsov was detained in May 2024 - a few days after the resignation Sergei ShoiguAccording to the investigation, between 2021 and 2023, the Defense Ministry's chief personnel officer accepted bribes from representatives of commercial entities for "performing certain actions in their favor." Specifically, a Krasnodar businessman Leva Martirosyan in gratitude for government contracts for hotel services for the Shtemenko Krasnodar Higher Military School worth more than 370 million rubles designed Kuznetsov's wife received a plot of land and a house in Krasnodar, with a total value of 80,1 million rubles.

Martirosyan also became a defendant in a criminal case and received a 10-year prison sentence and a 62 million ruble fine.

Kuznetsov had previously called himself an "honest man" in a letter to Putin. However, in October of last year, 500 million rubles worth of property was seized from the general and his relatives.

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