Ex-Moscow senior judicial official detained on theft suspicion — Investigative Committee

MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. Former head of the Moscow directorate of the Russian judicial department Vyacheslav Lipezin has been detained on suspicion of embezzling 300 million rubles ($5.2 million), Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told TASS.

"According to investigators, the management of the Rabikon LLC submitted to the Moscow directorate of the judicial department under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation fake resolutions of judicial bodies on payment for work of a translator, as a result of which more than 300 million rubles was stolen from Russia’s budget in 2014," Markin said.

Rabikon director general Umar Zarobetov has been detained too.