At Least 6 Yekaterinburg Law Enforcement Officials Arrested on Various Charges – Reports

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Yekaterinburg over the past week, the independent news website Govorit NeMoskvareported Friday.Andrei Dyakov, who heads the anti-corruption
Authorities accuse him of accepting 200 million rubles ($2.2 million) in bribes, allegations that he denies.A Yekaterinburg courtruled
Thursday to keep Dyakov in pre-trial detention until July 20, according to local media.Besides Dyakov, state mediareported that authorities
regional tax service branch as of May 17.There were no details available on what, if any, charges Loginov faces
tax official under wraps.Last week, meanwhile, former anti-drug police chief Vladislav Sobolev and four other officers were charged over the
2000 killing of three people, the Kommersant business daily reported
Sobolev, who was dismissed that same year, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug dealing charges in 2006, according to the
newspaper.It was not immediately clear if the cases against the six law enforcement officials were connected, or if they represented a wider