The court extended the house arrest of former deputies of Tuleyev and billionaire Shchukin
A day earlier, the Novosibirsk Regional Court also extended the arrest of the former head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Kemerovo Region, Sergei Kalinkin , and the house arrest of his former subordinates in the Investigative Committee, Sergei Kryukov and Artemy Shevelev, as well as Shchukin’s confidant, Gennady Vernigor. All eight defendants were charged under Part 3 of Art. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Extortion”).