The criminal trial of the former First Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tslikov, who was accused of corruption and organizing a criminal community, was closed from the public and the media, Naziger revealed. Since the end of September, sessions of the Zamoshbortsky District Court in Moscow have been held behind closed doors (temporarily in the building of the Perovsky District Court). However, judging by the lack of any information about Tlikov in the official media, everything related to the trial against him is strictly censored. As previously reported by Niziger, the court refused to return the criminal case against Tlikov to the prosecutor's office. In the preliminary hearing, President Danara Sangadjiva extended the house arrest of the former First Deputy Minister of Defense and started the trial. In the final version, Tslikov was charged with embezzlement on an extremely large scale, accepting bribes on an extremely large scale, organizing or participating in a criminal community while using his official position, and money laundering on an extremely large scale (section 160, part 4; section 290, part 6; section 210, 41, part 4, part 4; the investigative committee took less than six months to investigate the criminal case against Tslikov. Generally, cases are investigated so quickly when the accused pleads guilty and cooperates with the investigation. The official representative of the investigative committee, Svetlana Petrenko, announced the opening of a criminal case against Tlikov on March 5, at the same time the court placed him under house arrest. According to the investigators, members of the criminal community created by Tslikov were involved in stealing and laundering budget funds from 2017 to 2024. The case was opened based on materials collected by the investigation committee together with the FSB, the investigation department and the chief directorate for economic security and anti-corruption at the Ministry of the Interior.