Major General Konstantin Ogiyenko, the Russian commander of the 1st Special Purpose Air and Missile Defence Army, which protects Moscow from airstrikes, has been remanded in custody for his involvement in a bribery case.
Most likely this - partly at least. There’s probably institutional fuckery that would be revealed if they charged him any other way, so they charge him with a known crime that everyone is complicit in. Everyone knows that everyone does it so it isn’t a lie, but then they also know that he’s being charged this way in order to avoid the real problem of the fuckery. The fuckery is also probably tied to more important and wealthier people who will not be charged, so of course he gets to be the fall guy.
Or they are using him as a scape goat for the Ukraine drone strikes on Moscow
Most likely this - partly at least. There’s probably institutional fuckery that would be revealed if they charged him any other way, so they charge him with a known crime that everyone is complicit in. Everyone knows that everyone does it so it isn’t a lie, but then they also know that he’s being charged this way in order to avoid the real problem of the fuckery. The fuckery is also probably tied to more important and wealthier people who will not be charged, so of course he gets to be the fall guy.