Investigators are interrogating another defendant in the criminal case on the theft of natural gas from Gazprom in the amount of more than 30 billion rubles, in which Senator Rauf Arashukov and his father, Raul Arashukov, adviser to the general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, are involved. The new suspect is the executive director of Essentukigorgaz JSC Alan Kyatov, Interfax reports .
At the end of the interrogation, the investigation will petition for his arrest. In addition to the father and son Arashukovs, the heads of the energy enterprises of the North Caucasian Federal District Ruslan Arashukov, Guzer Khashukaev, Nikolai Romanov and Igor Travinov are also involved in the case.
Rauf Arashukov is accused of participation in a criminal community, pressure on a witness and murder. The rest, depending on the role of each, are accused of fraud, as well as creating and participating in a criminal community.