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Dokument #1399590
RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Autor)
A Russian regional governor who was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin last week has been detained on charges of bribe-taking.
Lawyers for the former Mari El region chief, Leonid Markelov, and a businessman accused of giving him a bribe said on April 13 that Markelov was expected to be brought to Moscow and that searches were being conducted.
The Kremlin said on April 6 that Putin had accepted Markelov's resignation and dismissed him, giving no explanation for the move.
Markelov, 53, had led Mari El -- a region on the Volga River with a population of 700,000 -- since 2001.
On April 4, Putin fired the head of the nearby Udmurtia region after he was arrested on charges of bribe-taking.
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