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Fontanka: FSB detained former State Duma deputy Denis Volchek
Denis Volchek, a businessman, former State Duma deputy and city legislator, was detained in St. Petersburg. This is reported by "Fontanka" without reference to sources.
On the morning of April 22, employees of the central office of the FSB of Russia arrived at Volchek's country house. They seized the businessman's phones and computer, and he himself was taken to Moscow.
According to Fontanka, Volchek is involved in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee of Moscow. Details of the case are unknown to the publication.
Denis Volchek's father, Gennady, told Znak.com that he did not know about the detention.
Updated . According to Fontanka , FSB officers also detained Volchek's business partner, businessman Zurab Pliyev.
Fontanka also knows that the operatives from Lubyanka, arriving early this morning, April 22, to their colleagues at Liteiny, 4, kept the purpose of their event a secret from everyone except the top leadership of the regional FSB.
- Denis Volchek, 49, has been in business since the mid-1990s, including participating in the management of the RusMed insurance company and the Pharmacon pharmaceutical plant.
- In 2002, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2007 to 2016, Volchek was a member of the State Duma from the LDPR. He was considered the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Liberal Democratic Party.
- In 2016, after an intra-party conflict in the LDPR, Volchek tried to be elected to the State Duma from the Just Russia party, but lost the election. He then reportedly lived in Israel.
- Volchek has Israeli and Greek citizenship, Fontanka writes.