“The last time an assistant investigator came to see me was in November, and there were no more investigative actions,” the human rights activist quoted Zuev as saying.
At the same time, Khurudzhi recalled that during a recent meeting with members of the PMC, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Moscow, General Sergei Moroz, said that his department informs the leadership of the Investigative Committee about the failure to conduct investigative actions with prisoners in the pre-trial detention center for a period exceeding one month.
The general called this one of the measures to combat overcrowding in the capital's detention centers.
Zuev is accused of embezzling more than 21 million rubles.
According to investigators, in 2018, together with ex-deputy minister of education Marina Rakova and former deputy general director of the Foundation for New Forms of Education Development Yevgeny Zak, he conspired to steal money from the RANEPA.