Ex-Deputy Minister Marina Rakova, put on the wanted list, was detained

"Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are conducting investigative actions with Marina Rakova, she is in the Main Investigation Directorate of the GUMVD of Russia in Moscow", - the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk told RIA Novosti.

According to the telegram channel Mash, Rakova came to the investigators herself after the arrest of her husband Artur Stetsenko.

Later, Sberbank clarified that Rakova is no longer vice president - she was fired.

Rakova became a defendant in the case of embezzlement of over 50 million rubles. According to the investigation, in 2019 she lobbied for the allocation of budget money to the Fund for New Forms of Education Development (FNFED), of which she was the general director.

These funds were intended for government contracts for the federal project "Teacher of the Future". In the course of examinations, falsifications were found in reports on two "scientific studies". Investigators intend to check other contracts conducted by Rakova, the total value of which exceeds 150 million rubles.

After the search on September 29, Rakova signed a pledge to appear before the investigator on September 30, but disappeared without appearing for interrogation. The police assumed that she might be hiding in the suburbs. Rakov was put on the federal wanted list.

Earlier, the security forces arrested three alleged accomplices of Rakova: Maxim Inkin, Yevgeny Zak (both from the top management of Sberbank) and ex-director of Shaninka Kristina Kryuchkova. All of them are also charged under article 159, part 4 (large-scale fraud).