MOSCOW. March 10 (Interfax) - Former Deputy Commander of the Russian Interior Troops Lieut. Gen. Vyacheslav Varchuk has been charged with taking a large-scale bribe, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on Friday.
"He has been charged with taking a bribe of ten million rubles while he was Interior Troops deputy commander, before the Russian National Guard was established," the source said.
Varchuk was detained on suspicion of taking a large-scale bribe on March 3, he said.
The second suspect in this case is Varchuk's former deputy Alexander Kostin, who was deputy director of the Interior Troops finance department, the source said. Kostin has been accused of promising to allocate an extra 250 million rubles in funds for the Interior Troops liaison department in exchange for a ten-million-ruble bribe.
"The investigation is now establishing who received this ten million rubles and how much of this sum," he said.
The Moscow Garrison Military Court remanded Varchuk into custody for two months on March 5, another source told Interfax.
Interfax does not yet have official information on this criminal case.
The Kommersant newspaper said on March 6 that Kostin, Varchuk's former deputy and deputy director of the Interior Troops finance department, had been arrested in the case dealing with a ten-million-ruble bribery. The newspaper said that Kostin had promised to help the Interior Troops liaison department secure an additional 250 million rubles of funding in exchange for this bribe. The officer himself has denied any wrongdoing.