Court puts former Rusnano top managers Melamed, Ponurov under 3-month house arrest
(period of house arrest adjusted throughout news item issued at 9.59 a.m.)
MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax) - Moscow's Cheryomushkinsky District Court has put former Rusnano CEO Leonid Melamed and former Rusnano CFO Svyatoslav Ponurov under house arrest on the counts of embezzling over 220 million rubles, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom.
"The court deems house arrest to be a sufficient restrictive measure for Melamed and Ponurov and puts the defendants, Melamed and Ponurov, under house arrest for a period of three months," Judge Maria Barabanova said on Monday.
According to the court resolution, Melamed and Ponurov will remain under house arrest until August 22.
The court thus dismissed the demand of prosecutors that the defendants be arrested for six months of the proceeding. The prosecutors presented a report of a Federal Security Service operative, according to which Melamed and Ponurov might try to flee from justice unless they were arrested.
The court upheld the request of the defendants and their lawyers, who asked for putting Melamed and Ponurov under house arrest.