INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A former Russian government official was detained at a Moscow airport this week on suspicion of embezzling over $15 million from a Siberian
metro construction project's budget, mediareported Friday.According to the RBC news website, Federal Security Service (FSB) agents
apprehended Oleg Mitvol, a former ecology official and a Moscow city prefect in the mid-2000s, at Vnukovo International Airport on
vacation when he was detained.Mitvol, 55, was reportedly brought 4,000 kilometers east from Moscow to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk,
where a court on Fridayordered him to be held in pre-trial custody until July 24.He is accused of embezzling 954 million rubles ($16.5
chairman of the board since 2018, the Krasnoyarsk Engineering and Construction Trust (Krasnoyarsk TISIZ), performed only part of the
outdated and irrelevant information, as well as allegedly falsified signatures.Authorities were said to have opened the criminal case into
