This was reported by TASS with reference to the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

These persons were involved in issuing permits for the construction and commissioning of defense and security facilities.

Two more defendants in the case pleaded guilty and were placed under house arrest.

In February, the defense of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, appealed against his arrest in the case of theft of 6.7 billion rubles for the supply of radio stations.