The court upheld the verdict of General Popov in the case of major fraud.

On Friday, July 25, the 2nd Western District Military Court upheld the verdict of the former commander of the 58th Army of the Armed Forces of Russia, Major General Ivan Popov, in the case of major fraud and forgery, the Izvestia correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The trial was held behind closed doors from the press. Thus, the court granted the prosecutor's request to close the trial, due to the fact that the file contains data that contains secrecy. In his complaint, the lawyer of the military, Sergei Buinovsky, asked for an acquittal of the court. He noted that Popov receives a huge number of letters from both ordinary soldiers and generals, who "were not afraid to openly support him before."

On April 24, the court sentenced Popov to five years in a penal colony and stripped him of his military rank. In addition, he was fined as an additional punishment in the amount of 800 thousand rubles.

Popov was arrested on May 17, 2024, for two months, and charged on May 24. On May 23, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation requested that he be placed under house arrest. However, on June 7, the Second Western District Military Court remanded Popov in jail. Later, on June 10, a court in Moscow sent a civilian, who was also arrested in the criminal case, to a pre-trial detention center. On July 18, Buinovsky announced that Popov had appealed the term of house arrest, but did not appeal the commutation of the preventive measure.