[Russia] - Russian Army General Popov Kept in Pre-Trial Detention on Fraud Charges

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian military court has rejected a request to transfer Major General Ivan Popov to house arrest and ruled to keep him in pre-trial
detention for two months, the independent news website Mediazonareported Monday.Popov, whose May 17arrest was first reported last week, is
arrest, but the request was rejected during a hearing on Monday and the general will be kept in pre-trial detention for at least two
Ministrytold The Moscow Times that the arrests are part of an ongoing Federal Security Service (FSB) purge of high-ranking generals over
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