The commander of the Baltic Fleet's Leningrad Naval Base, Alexei Soglobov, and the head of the Naval Engineering Service of the Ministry of Defense, Alexei Ionov, were arrested - they are suspected of taking bribes. Soglobov, according to media reports, was arrested while receiving 1.5 million rubles; Later it became known about Ionov's arrest. Since the end of 2025, according to the investigators, the defendants systematically received money from businessmen for sponsoring and supplying the base area for illegal commercial use - Blumenosov entrepreneurs mined sand and crushed stone, and filled pits with construction waste, saving on evacuation.