>Dozens of soldiers in Russia’s elite 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade arranged for colleagues to shoot them in a scheme to defraud the state of about $2.5 million in compensation for fake battlefield injuries, according to a report from the Kommersant newspaper. Investigators, who have now completed their probe, say servicemen would inflict non-lethal gunshot wounds on one another to qualify for payments of up to 3 million rubles (about $37,000) each. The alleged ringleaders, Colonel Artem Gorodilov and Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Frolov (call sign “Palach”, or “Executioner”), have reportedly confessed and implicated others.
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