“The Central District Court on February 28 (Pashovu -
RT
) elected a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of two months - until April 26.
He will be in the Khabarovsk pre-trial detention center for now, and then - as the investigator decides, ”RIA Novosti reports.
According to the deputy of the local parliament Maksim Kozlov, the official was detained in the framework of long-initiated criminal cases.
Pashov was on Sakhalin all the time, attended interrogations and participated in investigative measures.
Earlier, the Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Bashkiria, Boris Belyaev, was charged with abuse of office.