27 Nov 2012 18:46

Ex-Agriculture Minister Skrynnik figuring in criminal case as witness - source

MOSCOW. Nov 27 (Interfax) - Former Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik is figuring in a criminal case related to fraud at the company Rosagroleasing as a witness, while the investigation has a number of serious questions for her former colleague Oleg Donskikh, the director of the administrative department at the Agriculture Ministry, and some other people, Interior Ministry spokesman Andrei Pilipchuk told Interfax.

"Skrynnik is figuring in this case as a witness," Pilipchuk told Interfax on Tuesday.

Donskikh has been declared internationally wanted, he said.