About this TASS said the lawyer Elena Korotkikh.
“The preventive measure has been extended for two months,” she said.
Previously, investigators opened a criminal case on a particularly large scale bribe against Bykov.
According to the investigation, in 2014-2016 he received from a businessman in the city of Kirov through an intermediary a bribe in the amount of 7.8 million rubles.
On January 16, Komi Minister of the Interior Viktor Polovnikov was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.