FILE PHOTO: Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, deputy head of the army's general staff, is seen in this image on October 6, 2023. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
(Reuters) -Russia has arrested two more top figures - the deputy head of the army's General Staff and a senior procurement official at the defence ministry - in a widening bribery scandal, investigators said on Thursday.
The arrests of Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin and ministry official Vladimir Verteletsky raised the number of detained military and defence officials to five in the space of a month.
