Issue #1546 (7), Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Two Property Officials Arrested

The St. Petersburg Times

MOSCOW — Two former senior officials with the Federal Property Agency have been arrested on suspicion of extorting a $340,000 bribe from a Moscow university official, the Investigative Committee said Monday.

Sergei Korchagin, former head of the agency’s Moscow branch, and Dmitry Knyazev, head of the branch’s property registration department, are suspected of extorting 10.5 million rubles ($344,000) from a deputy dean of the Moscow State Academy of Water Transport in December, the committee said in a statement.

The suspects purportedly demanded the money in exchange for registering real estate used by the academy and threatened to confiscate property from the institute if the academy official did not pay the bribe, the Investigative Committee said.

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