Ex-governor of the Chelyabinsk region Yurevich put on the international wanted list

The investigation asks in absentia to arrest the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region Mikhail Yurevich, accused of corruption. This was reported by Interfax with reference to lawyer Igor Trunov.

"We received a procedural document from the investigator, in which he says that a petition was submitted to the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg on the election of a preventive measure to the accused Yurevich in the form of detention in connection with his international search and the inability to choose a different preventive measure," Trunov said.

The meeting of the district court will be held on May 12. Trunov said that the defense will appeal the announcement of Yurevich on the international wanted list. According to the lawyer, the requirement of the investigation is illegal and unreasonable.

“Firstly, no one brought him accusations, because he is sick. Secondly, he does not need to look for him, because in the medical documents that we presented to the investigation there is the address and phone of the doctor who treats him and Yurevich’s personal phone,” Trunov said.

For ethical reasons, Trunov refused to call the diagnosis of the ex-governor, but assured that Yurevich’s disease was serious. "We presented an expert opinion of the Russian State Expert institution that this disease and its current state impede the flight to Yekaterinburg to participate in procedural actions, because it cannot fully give a report in the decisions that need to be made," the lawyer said.

On March 16, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported that the case was opened against Yurevich . "A criminal case was instituted on the fact of receiving a bribe by Mikhail Yurevich, who in 2012 held the post of governor of the Chelyabinsk region, from Vitaliy Teslenko, appointed by Yurevich, to the post of Minister of Health of the Chelyabinsk Region. A set of investigative actions and operational measures is being held, aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime," the message said.

Now Yurevich is on treatment in Israel, his spokeswoman Julia Bobyleva said. The ex-governor learned about the criminal case against him from the media. According to the owls of Bobyleva, Yurevich is not yet ready to comment on anything, since he has too little information about the essence of the matter.

Yurevich was approved for the post of governor in March 2010. On January 15, 2014, President Vladimir Putin prematurely sent Yurevich to resign with the wording of his own free will. I.O. The Governor was appointed by the Governor of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant Boris Dubrovsky by the same decree.