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President Vladimir Putin no saw the need to keep Rector Shaninka Sergei Zuev in pre-trial detention. This was stated by a member of the Human Rights Council Leonid Nikitinsky after a meeting with the head of state.
Nikolai Svanidze, a member of the Human Rights Council, raised the issue of keeping Zuev in custody. to which Putin replied that he was not doing it “behind bars.” The president also agreed, as Nikitinsky emphasized, that detention in pre-trial detention was often not a legitimate measure.
Putin told HRC members that during the preliminary investigation, house arrest is quite possible with the help of an electronic bracelet with which you can control the person under investigation.
Recall that Sergei Zuev is in prison as a defendant in a criminal case of fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale. He is accused of fictitious employment of a number of employees of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation in the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).