Russia’s FSB raided the home of a senior Defense Ministry official in the pre-dawn hours of Monday as part of a rapidly expanding probe of corruption within that ministry. The FSB kicked in the doors and windows of Lieutenant General Yury Kuznetsov’s suburban Moscow villa at around 5 a.m., dragged him from bed, and bundled him away to prison. According to Russian media, the search not only netted documents but over $1 million in cash, “gold coins, collectible watches and luxury items.” Kuznetsov stands accused of “taking a bribe on a particularly large scale.” Given the industrial scale of Russian corruption, taking a bribe large enough to draw the attention of the FSB is something of an accomplishment.
There was no word if the FSB sniffed their way through his wife’s underwear drawer, but they did arrest her. And they held a photo op.
Two boxes of documents were taken from the…
