General Kuznetsov found real estate and a coin collection worth 500 million rubles.

During the searches, the former head of the main personnel department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, found real estate, a collection of rare coins, as well as jewelry worth about 504.8 million rubles. This was reported by Vedomosti on August 27, citing sources.

So, to conceal his property income, Kuznetsov acquired real estate and registered them with family members. According to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the total market value of all real estate purchased by the man amounted to almost 241 million rubles. Hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros in cash and millions of rubles were also seized from the Lieutenant General's homes.

According to the newspaper, the value of the discovered property is more than five times higher than the official income of the general and his wife over the past 14 years. In addition, the prosecutor's office revealed serious violations of the prohibitions and restrictions established by the anti-corruption legislation.

It is noted that currently the investigation of the criminal case against the defendant has already been completed, the case materials are being studied before the trial on the merits.

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In May 2024, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia opened a criminal case against Kuznetsov for accepting a particularly large bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, as head of the 8th Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, he received a bribe in the form of a land plot and an apartment building from "representatives of commercial structures for committing certain actions in their favor." Shortly after, he was arrested.

On October 16 of the same year, the court seized 29 accounts in three Russian banks and six of Kuznetsov's real estate properties. They also seized a plot of land in Krasnogorsk, the village of Obushkovo in the Istra district of the Moscow region, a house in the latter, land in Krasnodar and a three-story house with an area of more than 1.1 thousand square meters located on it, as well as an apartment on Yartsevskaya Street in Moscow.

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