The court arrested the common-law husband of ex-deputy head of the Ministry of Education Rakova in a fraud case

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow took into custody for two months Artur Stetsenko, the common-law husband of the ex-deputy head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and former vice-president of Sberbank Marina Rakova, who is accused of fraud. This was reported by the press service of the court.

Artur Stetsenko was detained on suspicion of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, while his wife worked at the Foundation for New Forms of Education Development, Stetsenko was fictitiously employed in this organization. From 2017 to 2019, under the guise of wages, he received over 9 million rubles.

The former deputy head of the Ministry of Education of Russia, Marina Rakova, who disappeared after searches in the case of embezzlement of more than 50 million rubles, was also detained in Moscow today. She was charged under the article on fraud on an especially large scale.

as a contractor in the embezzlement case . appears The Russian-British Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences - Shaninka

Rakova served as Deputy Minister of Education of Russia from October 2018 to March 2020. Then the head of Sberbank German Gref announced her appointment to the post of vice president of the bank. After the indictment, Rakov was fired from this position.