Shoigu's Defrauded Deputy Refused To Be Sent To War In Ukraine
- 5.03.2026, 13:58
Timur Ivanov was trolled by saying that "SWO is a privilege, not an indulgence".
Moscow's Meshchansky District Court has refused to send former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was sentenced to 13 years for embezzling more than 3.9 billion rubles, to the war in Ukraine, the Moscow Times writes, to send him to the war in Ukraine, The Moscow Times writes.
The former official filed a lawsuit against the Defense Ministry and the Military Commissariat of Moscow, demanding that he be contracted and sent to the front in any rank and position.
"The court recognized the lawfulness of the defendants' actions and the refusal to conclude a contract with him for military service in the SVO zone, believing that it is possible to The former official declared his readiness to "redeem himself with blood and die" in the war to "defend his good name." At the same time, he stressed that he agreed to serve as a private in an assault battalion.
"For ten years I was deputy defense minister, the country needed me. Even during the Great Patriotic War, people were sent to punishment battalions, and they could redeem themselves with blood. How can this be?" - said the arrested man.
The representatives of the Defense Ministry and the Military Commissariat of Moscow noted at the court hearing that the current legislation does not oblige them to conclude contracts with persons with a criminal record, "but only provides for such a possibility".
Timur Ivanov was detained in April 2024 on suspicion of receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale. In July 2025, he was found guilty in a case of embezzlement of funds in the purchase of ferries for the Kerch crossing and withdrawal of more than 3.9 billion rubles from Interkommerts Bank. The court sentenced him to 13 years in a general regime colony. Ivanov is also charged with several episodes of bribery, money laundering on a large scale and illegal possession of weapons. Ivanov himself does not admit guilt.
The court ruled to seize property worth a total of 1.2 billion rubles from the former official and his relatives. Among other things, 11 land plots in Karelia and the Moscow region, the estate of Sophia Volkonskaya in the center of Moscow, an estate in the Tver region on the banks of the Volga River, a house in the elite village of Razdory near Moscow, 35 cars, a collection of 30 paintings of cultural value were turned to the state, 26 copies of rare weapons, ten antique publications, more than 40 pairs of watches, over 2.5 kg of gold, platinum and silver jewelry with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other precious stones, as well as 340 million rubles.
"The SWO is a privilege, not an indulgence." Former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for embezzlement of more than 3.9 billion rubles, was refused to be sent to the war in Ukraine by the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow.