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Former head of the Federal Property Management Agency of the Moscow Region pleads not guilty in bribery case

The former head of the Federal Property Management Agency of the Moscow Region, Nikolai Peshkov, pleads not guilty in the bribery case. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

“He believes that a provocation has been committed against him,” the source said.

Earlier, the Babushkinsky Court in Moscow arrested Nikolai Peshkov, ex-head of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Moscow Region, for two months.

Peshkov was detained until March 25 on charges of taking a bribe, he faces up to 12 years in prison. According to the investigation, the former head of the Federal Property Management Agency received a bribe from a businessman for "assistance."

Prior to this, it was reported that in Krasnoyarsk, a senior lecturer at the Siberian State University of Science and Technology. M.F. Reshetneva will stand trial for 22 counts of accepting bribes from students and nine counts of mediation.

Former head of the Federal Property Management Agency of the Moscow Region pleads not guilty in bribery case