Valery Mumindzhanov

Valery Mumindzhanov is a Russian major general who served as the deputy commander of the newly reformed Leningrad Military District. On September 2, 2024, it was announced Mumindzhanov was arrested on corruption charges.

Biography On September 2, 2024, it was announced Mumindzhanov was arrested for taking a 20 million rouble (~223,000 USD) bribe. Mumindzhanov was the ninth leading Russian military official to be arrested on charges of fraud, bribery or abuse of office joining Deputy Defense Ministers Timur Ivanov and Pavel Popov, as well as other allies of former minister of defense Sergei Shoigu. The Institute for the Study of War has assessed that the arrest of Mumindzhanov was part of an ongoing purge by Andrey Belousov to remove allies of Shoigu from important positions.