MOSCOW - A Russian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov against his pre-trial detention in a bribery case in which his lawyer said he denies taking kickbacks worth about a billion roubles .In the biggest corruption scandal for years involving a government minister, Ivanov is accused of receiving a"particularly large bribe" in the form of property services from a construction company.
Ivanov's arrest last month by the FSB security service was widely seen as a blow to his boss, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, and as a sign of fighting within the elite as President Vladimir Putin prepares to name a new government at the start of his fifth term. Alexander Fomin, the co-founder of the construction company that allegedly provided the bribes, was arrested last month soon after Ivanov and Borodin.
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