The Moscow District Military Court has sentenced Vyacheslav Varchuk, the former commander-in-chief of the Interior Ministry’s internal troops, to 6 years in a high security penal colony for taking an especially large-scale bribe, RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The defendant was also fined 20 million rubles ($315,000) and lost his rank of General Lieutenant.

The court found that in 2015-2016 the defendant and his alleged accomplice, subordinate officer Alexander Kostin, received a bribe for assistance in additional financing communications department of the Chief Command of Interior Ministry’s internal troops.

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