The 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow sent Colonel Artem Gorodilov, who is under US sanctions due to the war in Ukraine, to a pre-trial detention center for two months. An Interfax correspondent reports this.
Gorodilov is accused of fraud v especially large size(Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). He did not admit guilt, RIA Novosti reports. The suppression meeting was held behind closed doors.
About the detention of a military man in Ryazan Kommersant reported this morning, citing an unnamed source. FSB military counterintelligence officers took Gorodilov to Moscow and handed him over to representatives of the Main Military Directorate of the Investigative Committee investigating the case.
Since 2019, Gorodilov commanded the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment, which is stationed in Pskov, and at the beginning of a full-scale The war was deployed in Bucha, Kyiv region. The New York Times filmed an investigation into the involvement of paratroopers of the 234th regiment in the killings of civilians and members of the Ukrainian terrorist defense in Bucha.
Later, 39-year-old Gorodilov was appointed commander of the 83rd separate air assault brigade, stationed in Ussuriysk. Kommersant notes that “in the criminal case [the military man] is considered the commander of an air assault regiment.”