ST.PETERSBURG. July 24 (Interfax-Northwest) - The Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg has put the head of the Nenets autonomous district administration Vladimir Butov on the federal wanted list, Prosecutor Nikolai Vinnichenko told a news conference on Thursday.
"Two participants in an incident with a police officer have been indicted, and Vladimir Butov has been announced as wanted," Vinnichenko said.
In late June, prosecutors charged representative of the Nenets autonomous district in St. Petersburg Yuri Yermolayev and driver of the Smolny car fleet Vladimir Chigirinov with violence against a police officer.
Yermolayev told the press earlier that the charges were related to an incident in St. Petersburg on April 11, 2003. Butov and Yermolayev were going to a meeting of the Russian president with northwestern district leaders.
A traffic police officer stopped the governor's car. Yermolayev said the officer made the driver get out of the car at gunpoint. They continued the trip only after Yermolayev had spoken to a deputy head of the St. Petersburg traffic police department.
Yermolayev said they learned about criminal proceedings on the charge of violence against the traffic officer on April 18. Yermolayev and the driver were indicted and released on their own recognizance on June 26-27.