The former Deputy Minister of Defense built money dedicated to the Patriot Park, a bathhouse and a garage

Former deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Pavel Popov spent the money allocated for the arrangement of Patriot Park, for the construction of a summer residence, baths and garage in the site of his son in the suburbs, the main military prosecutor's office said .

“On the land plot belonging to the son of Popov in one of the SNT in the suburbs at the expense of the funds allocated for the arrangement of the Patriot Park,“ turnkey ”(with interior decoration, equipment, plumbing, etc.) was erected and equipped with a two -story residential building and a one -story guest house (bath),” the department said in a statement. According to the department. According to the department. The prosecutor's office, a two -story garage was also built.

The total amount of funds spent is estimated at about 26 million rubles.

Popov issued construction as work in the park, the prosecutor's office claims.

Pavel Popov is one of the defendants in the theft of funds under the pretext of work in the Patriot Park. According to investigators, in 2022-2024, he, the director of the park Vyacheslav Akhmedov and the deputy chief of the Main Directorate of Innovation Development of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Vladimir Shesterov, abducted more than 25 million rubles "by entering the documentation of knowingly false information about the construction work."

According to the IC, at the expense of Patriot Park, Popov organized the construction of construction work and the supply of materials to a country site in the suburbs. According to the investigation, he forced commercial firms that have agreements with the park, carry out construction and installation work in his country apartments without paying them. Akhmedov and six pleaded guilty of fraud and official forgery during the investigation: they testified against Popov.

The general himself rejects the prosecution.