Overview

• The Basmanny District Court ordered blogger Nikolay Kamnev into pretrial custody for two months in the GATR embezzlement probe.
• St. Petersburg regional lawmaker Alexander Malkevich was placed under a ban on contacting co-defendants and witnesses and on visiting the agency, and he denies involvement.
• Sergey Kozhokar, head of the Family and Childhood Culture Fund, was put under house arrest for two months under money-laundering statutes.
• The Investigative Committee says five people are charged over 2020–2021 contracts where fictitious documents were used to secure payments that were moved through controlled accounts and cashed out.
• A hearing for Kamnev was held behind closed doors, and officials say detained regional executive Elena Nikitina has been brought to Moscow as investigators seek a pretrial measure.