Vice-President of the "Opor of Russia" arrested until January 19

The Tver Court of Moscow today was detained by the first vice-president of the All-Russian Public Organization of the Rossiya Russian Pavel Sigal, suspected of a major embezzlement of maternity capital.

According to RAPSI, Sigal was arrested until January 19, 2014.

The prosecutor protested against the arrest of the detainee, asking for the state of health of the sigal and positive characteristics. Lawyers asked to let him go on bail of 30 million rubles.

In total, in the framework of the criminal case about the theft of maternity capital, 17 people were detained. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the total amount of stolen funds

It is ten and a half billion rubles. Sigal himself does not plead guilty.

According to the investigation, about 400 companies for the issuance of microfinance loans located in 300 cities of Russia participated in the implementation of the theft scheme.

The All -Russian Public Movement "Union of Right Forces" yesterday made a statement in support of Pavel Sigal . The authors of the statement note that they have no reason to trust law enforcement agencies - “thereby who hid Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, physicist Valentin Danilov, participants in Pussy Riot, who unjustly holding the defendants of the“ swamp business ”in the captivity.