The court placed under house arrest the head of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense Protasov in the case of a bribe

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow has placed Andrei Protasov, head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "27 Central Research Institute" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, under house arrest on suspicion of accepting a bribe. This was announced on April 4 by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the capital.

It is specified that he is suspected of two episodes of receiving a bribe — on a large and especially large scale.

"By a decision of the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow, the investigator's petition for the election of a preventive measure in the form of house arrest against Protasov Andrey Andreevich <...> for a period of 1 month and 30 days was satisfied," the Telegram channel says.

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