"The court considered the investigation's petition to choose a preventive measure against the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Nizhny Novgorod Region ... Citizen G. was placed under house arrest until November 20, 2020," the press service quotes RIA Novosti.

In August, it was reported that investigators charged the former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Oleg Korshunov with embezzling almost 95 million rubles of budget funds allocated for the construction of a pre-trial detention center in Crimea.