The Moscow city court left under house arrest ex-Minister Ulyukayev says

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the Moscow city court left under house arrest ex-Minister Ulyukayev

the Moscow city court on Monday, January 30, dismissed the appeal of protection ex-the Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev on the measure of restraint. Former official accused of bribery, left under house arrest.
the Appeal of the former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev on the extension of house arrest dismissed. This decision was made by the judge of the Moscow city court Anatoly Korolev.

In January, the Basmanny court extended the house arrest officer. Judge Elena Lenskaya also refused the defence request to change the ex-official of the conditions of a measure of restraint, not allowing him morning and evening walks, doctors visits and baby-sitting his daughter. The investigator Roman Nesterov said then that the part of the witnesses in the case of the speaker — his former subordinates, which he, being under house arrest, may be affected.

the speaker was arrested on the night of November 15. According to TFR, the Minister was caught red-handed when receiving a bribe of $ 2 million (over 130 million); the representatives of “Rosneft”. The money, according to investigators, the ex-Minister extorted for the positive conclusion of Ministry of economic development concerning the purchase of Rosneft shares of the company “Bashneft”, owned by the state (50.8 per cent). The speaker forced the representatives of state-owned companies to the deal, threatening to impede its activities.

the Lawyer of ex-official Timofei Gridnev claimed that the ex-Minister considers the incident as a provocation. The Prosecutor’s office in response said that they see no signs of provocation in the arrest of the former official.

Development Uljukaev did not begin in less than a year before the arrest, said the source of RBC. Operational support takes the Federal security service, and supervised the operation the head of Department of own safety of FSB Oleg Feoktistov, who in September was appointed Vice-President of “Rosneft”.

on 15 November the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the decree about the dismissal of the speaker in connection with loss of trust.