“The court granted the investigator’s petition to order a preventive measure in the form of detention against Kveidze,” they said.
The term of arrest is set to March 23.
As specified, Kveidze was charged under Part 4 of Art.
159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud on an especially large scale".
In December 2017, the court sentenced Ulyukaev to eight years in prison and a fine of 130 million rubles.
He was convicted of accepting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.