The commander of the naval base in Leningrad and the head of the naval engineering service of the Ministry of Defense were arrested. They are accused of bribing millions. According to Fontanka, on October 21, on one of the streets of Kronstadt, the security forces arrested the commander of the Leningrad Naval Base of the Baltic Fleet, Captain First Class of the Navy, Alexei Soglobov, red-handed for taking a bribe of 1.5 million rubles. The head of the Naval Engineering Service of the Federal State Institution of the Ministry of Defense in Blomonosov, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Ionov, was also arrested. Criminal cases were opened. According to the investigators, Soglobov and Ionov, since the end of 2025, systematically received money from businessmen for general patronage and illegal transfer of the base area for commercial use. In particular, businessmen mined sand and crushed stone in the military town of Lomonosov. The case materials contain the results of the survey of the areas, in which it is stated that construction waste has already been dumped into the created pits. Thus, the construction companies saved on evacuation costs.