Russia’s federal security service has detained Crimea’s industrial policies minister, Andrey Skrynnik.
He is suspected of complicity in gross embezzlement of government assets committed by an organized group, TASS cited the ministry as saying.
Skrynnik was involved in the embezzlement of 48 million rubles. The main suspects in the case are Vasily Khmelevsky and Igor Karpov, the members of the Bakhchisarai district consumer society. Karpov and Khmelevsky are facing criminal fraud charges, and Skrynnik, of complicity.
Andrey Skrynnik was appointed Crimea’s industrial policies minster in July 2014.
