MOSCOW. Dec. 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Chief Military Prosecutor's Office intends to send to court shortly a criminal case involving two officers of the Defense Ministry's Material Resources Directorate accused of receiving bribes from Yulia Tymoshenko, now the leader of a Ukrainian political party.
"The charges have been brought against Alexander Izgagin and Boris Churilov," Chief Military Prosecutor Alexander Savenkov told reporters on Wednesday.
The two men are suspected of bribing Russian defense officials having to do with implementing a contract under which the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine, headed at that time by Tymoshenko, supplied building materials to the Russian Defense Ministry as part of payment for supplies of Russian natural gas, he said.
Five other Defense Ministry officers are also under investigation in this case, Savenkov said. Charges of bribe taking have been brought against three of them, he said.