General Staff officer in Moscow asks for washing machine as bribe

This was reported in the Russian media.

Colonel Ivan Mertvishchev of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff is accused of taking a bribe in the form of a washing machine from a military commissar. He has already been placed under house arrest.

In November, Mertvishchev was to conduct an inspection of the Ramenka district joint military commissariat. A week before the event, the colonel called the military commissar and warned him about the inspection. He hinted that things were going badly at the commissariat. And offered the military commissar to buy him a washing machine worth almost a thousand dollars in order to avoid the consequences of the inspection.

The commissar, in turn, contacted the FSB. The colonel was arrested when he arrived to collect the washing machine.

A criminal case was opened against Mertvishchev under the article on bribery combined with extortion. The officer fully admitted his guilt.