Another week, another major arrest among the siloviki in Russia: on Sunday, the FSB detained deputy chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Committee for Economic Security and Combating Corruption, Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. The special forces officers found $120 million of cash, in dollars bills, during searches conducted in the apartment of a Zakharchenko’s relative in Moscow. An additional $176,000 of cash was discovered in the Zakharchenko’s office. Zakharchenko’s boss, Andrey Kurnosenko, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Committee for Economic Security, resigned after Zakharchenko’s arrest.As Russian state-run media later reported, citing a source in law enforcement, the …read more
Source: The American Interest
