Ignatenko was arrested until July 1

The former deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, who is the main person involved in the case of the illegal gambling business, was left in custody until July 1, 2013, RIA Novosti reports. Ignatenko was extracted from Poland to Russia on February 7. In Moscow, he was charged with receiving bribes worth more than 40 million rubles. The ex-prosecutor insists on his innocence.

Ignatenko’s defense, just like the prosecution, was asked to put him under house arrest. Investigator Denis Nikandrov, however, insisted on extending the arrest due to fears that the accused could hide traces of the crime at large, put pressure on witnesses and take advantage of law enforcement.

Ignatenko in 2011 became a defendant in the case of underground casinos and was put on the international wanted list. He was detained on January 1 at the Polish resort of Zakopan. In February, the District Court of the city of Novova-Sonch allowed its extradition to Russia. The Court of Appeal in Krakow in March approved the decision. The final decision on extradition was made in the Ministry of Justice of Poland.

On January 24, the Prosecutor General did not approve the indictment and returned the "gambling" to the stage of the investigation. The head of the department, Yuri Chaika, agreed with the opinion of his deputy Viktor Grin that there was not enough evidence in the case. Earlier, Grin refused to sign an indictment in the case of former police officers Farit Temirgaliev and Mikhail Kulikov. They were accused of receiving a bribe of 75 thousand dollars from the organizers of the illegal gambling business. Deputy Prosecutor General did not find sufficient evidence that the defendants received money from the former head of the Department of the Moscow Regional Prophet Dmitry Urumov or entrepreneur Ivan Nazarov. The Investigative Committee appealed Green's refusal at the Seagull, but he supported the decision of his subordinate, the newspaper writes.

Earlier, according to the same circumstances, several former prosecutors near Moscow, accused of “roofing” of illegal gambling establishments for bribes, were returned to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Council of People's Commissars. In November, Grin filed an idea to the Supreme Court for the illegality of decisions on the arrest of the defendants of the case Oleg Sudakov, Kulikov and Temirgaliev. However, the court rejected the supervisory appeal. Earlier, the Armed Forces in a similar situation supported the Prosecutor General and recognized the arrest of three organizers of the underground gambling business.

In February 2011, a scandal with illegal gambling business flared up. Then the FSB said that the department, together with the investigators, discovered in the suburbs a large network of illegal casinos, which brought revenues from 5 to 10 million dollars a month to its owners. In total, ten employees of law enforcement agencies were arrested as part of the case, including former prosecutors of several districts of the Moscow Region. However, at present, Ignatenko remains the last detention of the defendants.