This was reported by TASS with reference to the press secretary of the court Juno Tsarev.

It is noted that the ex-official is accused of receiving a bribe involving extortion on a particularly large scale.

“The Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the request of the investigating authorities to take a preventive measure in the form of detention in respect of the accused Osman Abidovich Mahachev for a period of two months from the time of extradition or from the moment of his detention in the Russian Federation,” she said.

Earlier, investigators opened a criminal case on bribery against the former head of the education department of the executive committee of Kazan Ilnar Khidiyatov.

In September, the newspaper Realnoe Vremya reported that in Bashkiria they opened three criminal cases against the ex-traffic police inspector, who is suspected of exceeding his official authority and receiving a bribe.