MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. Military investigators have dismantled an organized criminal group accused of stealing payments intended for military personnel participating in the special military operation. Thirteen suspects have been detained in four Russian regions, the press service of the Investigative Committee’s Main Military Investigative Department told TASS.

"The Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, in coordination with the Bureau of Special Technical Measures of the Russian Interior Ministry, has disrupted the activities of an organized criminal group whose members systematically stole payments due to military personnel participating in the special military operation," the department said in a statement.

"Following joint investigative and operational measures, 13 members of the criminal group were detained in the Moscow and Rostov regions, the Republic of Kalmykia and the Donetsk People’s Republic," the statement added.