According to Svetlana Petrenko, from 2021-2024 Popov, while being in charge of Patriot Park, a military-theme park outside Moscow, enriched himself at the expense of the organization, acting jointly with the park’s director, Vyacheslav Akhmedov, and Vladimir Shesterov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Innovations at the Russian Defense Ministry, both of whom had been charged earlier
