The Russian governor of Khabarovsk region has been arrested on Thursday on multiple charges of involvement in murders.
Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region along the border with China, was arrested in Khabarovsk and was flown to Moscow.
The Investigative Committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency, said Furgal is accused of involvement in the murders of several businessmen in the region and nearby territories in 2004-2005.
Before becoming the governor of the Khabarovsk region in 2018, Furgal served as a federal lawmaker on the ticket of the Liberal-Democratic party for several years. In 2015-2016, he headed the public health committee in the lower house of parliament.
Russian TV stations showed the video of Furgal’s arrest, in which agents get the 50-year-old governor out of his car, search him and drive him away.
The Investigative Committee said that four of Furgal’s suspected accomplices were also arrested.
