Sverdlovsk Region Minister Alexei Pyankov Detained by Court
29 April 2016 (17:12)
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2016. Yekaterinburg Leninsky District Court upheld a motion regarding the detainment of Alexei Pyankov, Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Minister, who will remain in detention until June 25.
The official was detained after a search of his home and office on April 26. The searches were related to two criminal lawsuits, one of them with charges of bribe-taking (Article 291 (Part 5) and Article 291.1 (Part 4) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code).
‘The inquiry officers believe the minister accepted a total of 31.5m RUR worth of bribes for facilitation of a buyout procedure, whereupon a piece of real estate belonging to the bribe-giver could be sold for a price several times greater than the object’s actual worth,’ Russia’s Investigative Committee’s press service reports.
Deputy Ministers Artem Bogachev and Konstantin Nikanorov are also involved in the suit.
The official was detained after a search of his home and office on April 26. The searches were related to two criminal lawsuits, one of them with charges of bribe-taking (Article 291 (Part 5) and Article 291.1 (Part 4) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code).
‘The inquiry officers believe the minister accepted a total of 31.5m RUR worth of bribes for facilitation of a buyout procedure, whereupon a piece of real estate belonging to the bribe-giver could be sold for a price several times greater than the object’s actual worth,’ Russia’s Investigative Committee’s press service reports.
Deputy Ministers Artem Bogachev and Konstantin Nikanorov are also involved in the suit.
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