According to him, the detainee was charged under Part 2 of Art. 163 of the Criminal Code "Extortion of a group of persons by prior conspiracy" "in the alleged act", reports TASS.

“The investigation plans to appeal to the court for a preventive measure in the form of detention,” he said.

Vasenin said earlier that Vorontsov was detained in Moscow on suspicion of extortion. 

As the lawyer Sergei Badamshin noted, Vorontsova was interrogated in the case of extortion of 300 thousand rubles from a former Interior Ministry official; he does not admit guilt.