“The officers of the FSB of Russia and the FSB of Russia in the Belgorod region conducted operational-search measures against the head of the administration of the Belgorod region, A. Popkov, according to the results of which he is charged with receiving a bribe from a representative of a legal entity,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the regional representative of the FSB department .
A bribe case on an especially large scale has been opened against the official. The Basmanny court decided to take Popkov into custody.
Earlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the former head of the department of state protection of cultural heritage of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Tsvetnov, accused of fraud for 20 million rubles.