Ex-senator from Karachay-Cherkessia was arrested for two months

The former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, Vyacheslav Derev, was arrested for two months, until May 6, the press service of the Basmanny Court told Novaya Gazeta.

Trees are accused under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud). The interests of the senator will be defended by lawyers Kirill Belskoy and Nazir Gataev.

Earlier, several media outlets reported on his detention in the case of tax violations during the construction of livestock complexes. It was reported that the Kiev-Zhuraki APK company, controlled by the ex-senator, illegally received 119 million rubles of VAT due to the overpricing of work by the general contractor Mercury-2 Firm.

Vyacheslav Derev became a senator in April 2016, the term of office expired in March 2016. However, he wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will and left his post ahead of schedule in January 2016.