FSO is over

The 94th garrison military court in Moscow arrested until January 23, 2017 the head of the North Caucasus Department of the FSO, Lieutenant General Gennady Lopyrev, Interfax reports . He was charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.

The court session was held closed. "The application of the investigation is satisfied, to elect a preventive measure in the form of a detention in the form of a defendant Lopyrev," the court ruling says. The court refused to satisfy Lopyrev’s defense, which asked him to choose house arrest as a preventive measure.

"I will file an appeal against the decision on the arrest of my client," the lawyer General Ruslan Zalyuzhny said after the meeting.

On Friday, the Investigative Committee, together with the operational services of the FSB, opened a criminal case against Lopyrev under part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale). As noted in the TFR, the general received money "from the leaders of a number of commercial structures for general patronage when concluding and executing state contracts for repair and construction work."

The general was detained red -handed when receiving a bribe, the source of Interfax said . According to the source, in Lopyrev during the search, more than 1 billion rubles were discovered.

Lopyrev was already charged. “During the interrogation, he did not admit to his guilty as an accused,” Zalyuzhny said. The lawyer did not bring other details, referring to the subscription of non -disclosure and the secrecy of the case.

On Friday, the General’s detention was announced by the Center for Relations with the press and the public of the FSO. "During the internal audit of the FSO of the Russian Federation conducted in the units of the security service in the Caucasus, signs of serious violations of the current legislation were identified," the report said.

According to the sources of Kommersant, such checks were personally initiated by Major General Dmitry Kochnev. Vladimir Putin appointed him the head of the FSO in May . In this post, Kochnev was replaced by Evgenia Murova, who headed the special service for 16 years.

The media reported that the investigation against Lopyrev is associated with the distribution of land for the construction of Olympic facilities. However, the "familiar with the situation" the TASS source denied this. "The charges are connected with financial and economic activities and is not related to the sale of land and the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi," the source said.