Russian court arrests ex-penitentiary head’s assets worth over $300,000

MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. A Moscow court arrested the bank accounts and assets of former Federal Penitentiary Service Chief Alexander Reimer accused of a 2.7 billion-ruble ($54 million) fraud, the court's spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

"On the investigation’s petition, the court seized Reimer’s accounts and property worth over 15 million rubles [$300,000] as a restrictive measure," spokeswoman for the Presnensky District Court of Moscow Nina Yurkova said.

Reimer is charged with using fraudulent schemes to steal 2.7 billion rubles when purchasing electronic bracelets for court prisoners.

The court also arrested the accounts and property of another suspect in the fraud case, businessman Nikolai Martynov, the spokeswoman said.

The court passed its judgments on April 20, the spokeswoman said.