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The judge of the Basmann District Court of Moscow, Arthur Karpov, sent until January 15 to house arrest of the Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax reports . He is accused of extorting a bribe of $ 2 million from Rosneft representatives.

The defense and Ulyukaev himself asked him to appoint him a softer preventive measure. However, the judge agreed with the investigator and the prosecutor who insisted at the home arrest of the minister.

Ulyukaev is forbidden to leave the apartment, use communications and the Internet, communicate with someone except the closest relatives and lawyers. In the request of protection, the court refused to allow the minister daily two -hour walks.

The investigation did not demand the conclusion of Ulyukaev in custody and petitioned for house arrest. “Such a preventive measure was chosen, since Ulyukaev, as one of the ministers, has access to various GOSTIANs of the highest level. Therefore, it cannot be placed in a regular pre -trial detention center, and even more so in a common camera. In such cases, a house arrest is allowed either to a special isolated chamber at the discretion of the investigation and a judge,” a source in law enforcement agencies said .

Ulyukaev himself does not admit guilt. "Alexei Valentinovich did not admit his guilt. He believes that what happened yesterday at Rosneft’s office is a provocation against a government official," said lawyer Timofey Gridnev. According to him, together with other lawyers of the minister, it was decided to refrain from giving testimony until the prosecution is specified and evidence is presented. Gridnev noted that the investigation took him a subscription to non -disclosure of the preliminary investigation.

"According to the investigation, Ulyukaev illegally demanded from the representative of PJSC" Rosneft "as a bribe as a bribe for the legitimate issuance of a positive imprisonment and evaluation in relation to the transaction for the acquisition of PJSC NK Rosneft, the state of shares of PJSC Bashneft, at the same time, expressed threats using his official powers, to create further, to create further The obstacles to the company's activities.

Ulyukaev was charged under part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe by a person holding a state position, with an extortion of a bribe and on a particularly large scale). The maximum sanction of this article provides for a fine of eighty -time to a hundred times the amount of a bribe with deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to fifteen years, or imprisonment for a term of eight to fifteen years with a fine of up to seventy -time bribe amounts or without it.

The detention of the minister became known on Tuesday night. As Interfax reported with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Svetlana Petrenko, Ulyukaev was detained during the FSB operation. The intelligence service listened to the Minister’s phone since the summer of this year. In the conversations of the head of the Ministry of Economic Development with representatives of Rosneft, when discussing the issue of privatization of Bashneft, threats sounded. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee, these materials formed the basis of the criminal case. “During the detention, Ulyukaev tried to get through to the patrons, but in vain,” Petrenko noted.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin received all the information from the beginning of the operational development of Ulyukaev. “The president, of course, is informed, he is in the know,” Peskov said. “He was reported at the time of the start of operational development, that is, he received all the information.”

The spokeswoman did not answer the question of whether he would hit the investment image of Russia with the prosecution against the head of the Ministry of Economic Development. “In any case, only the court can solve anything,” Peskov emphasized.

The initiation of a criminal case and the detention of Ulyukaev will not be the basis for the resignation of the government, the press secretary noted . “I don’t see a connection. We are talking about personal accusations that are not the basis for recognizing this or that minister or just an individual by a corrupt official or guilty,” Peskov noted. “In this case, it is absurd to talk about some kind of collective responsibility.”

The spokeswoman also said that he did not have information whether Putin made a decision to dismiss Ulyukaev independently or on the proposal of the Prime Minister. Answering the question why Putin, knowing about the development of Ulyukaev, did not dismiss the minister, Peskov said: "There are sufficient grounds for dismissal. Not the primary information, but the information that is confirmed by the relevant arguments, the seriousness of which corresponds to the seriousness of the charges. This is quite obvious."

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at a meeting of the Duma faction of United Russia, said : "The incident is beyond my understanding." He added that the day before he discussed the situation with Vladimir Putin. “He has the same opinion,” the prime minister said.

Meanwhile, the sources of Novaya Gazeta report that the investigation against Ulyukaev began on the initiative of the head of the Rosneft Security Service, a former high -ranking FSB officer Oleg Feoktistov. He also participated in operational and technical events. "

According to Novyka, two million dollars for Ulyukaev lay in a bank cell. According to the sources of the publication, the materials of the wiretap "indicate the presence of the claims of the minister for this money", but Ulyukaev himself did not remove the money.

Interfax, however, with reference to a certain source, "familiar with the situation", reported that the money was transferred directly to Ulyukaev.