Kremlin denies hush-up in Defense Ministry corruption inquiry
MOSCOW. Dec 8 (Interfax) - The head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, has expressed his disagreement with a view that a high-profile inquiry into corruption at the Defense Ministry is being hushed up.
"I cannot agree that everything is being hushed up there, everything is out of control - that is far from the being the case," Ivanov told a press conference on Monday.
Several of the accused have already been convicted, and the inquiry into Yevgeniya Vasiliyeva, a former head of unit at the Defense Ministry, continues, he said.
"The case over the well-known suspect named Vasiliyeva alone is already a 350-volume criminal dossier. The court imposed a detention order (house arrest). One can giggle as long as they please, but it is nonetheless a detention order," Ivanov said.
