Overview

• Russia’s Second Western District Military Court extended former Defense Ministry HR chief Yuri Kuznetsov’s pretrial custody for another month, with court materials citing a new date of November 5.
• A similar order covers entrepreneur Leva Martirosyan, and both men have been held since May 2024 as investigators completed the case and sent it to prosecutors for approval.
• Investigators allege Kuznetsov steered contracts and hotel-service deals exceeding 372 million rubles linked to the Krasnodar Higher Military School, with property in Krasnodar registered to his wife; the defense denies bribery and cites payment records.
• The Prosecutor General has filed a civil suit seeking the confiscation of assets totaling nearly 500 million rubles from Kuznetsov and family members, naming his wife and two daughters as respondents.
• In a separate probe, Moscow’s Basmanny Court ordered custody until December 7 for Kurgan region bailiff service head Irina Uvarova and deputy Dmitry Leonov on embezzlement charges opened on October 7 following their October 8 detentions.