ARKHANGELSK. March 31 (Interfax) - Arkhangelsk's Lomonosovsky District Court on Friday put the deputy governor of Russia's Nenets Autonomous District, suspected of accepting a bribe, in custody, a representative of the press service for the Arkhangelsk Region Court told Interfax.
"The court has selected a measure of restraint in the form of custody for a period of two months, which ends May 29, 2023," the press officer said.
The press service for the regional branch of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax earlier that the other suspect in the case, supposedly an intermediary, is in Naryan-Mar under a travel ban.
The officers of the Arkhangelsk FSB department on Thursday detained the deputy governor of the Nenets Autonomous District and one of his subordinates on suspicion of corruption. The deputy governor has been charged under the Russian Penal Code as an official who accepted a bribe in an especially large amount. His subordinate is suspected of mediation in bribery.
Investigators believe that the official demanded through a middleman that a representative of a commercial firm hand him a bribe in an amount of 10% of the organization's profit under a government contract granted within the framework of the Healthcare national project. The total amount of the bribe was almost two million rubles, the press officer said.