EX-GOVERNOR OF TULA ARRESTED.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 112

Nikolai Sevryugin, who wasgovernor of Tula oblast from 1991 to March 1997, has been arrestedalong with his son on suspicion of taking a $100,000 bribe. Sevryugincame third in the gubernatorial election held in March which waswon by August 1991 coup-plotter Vasili Starodubtsev. (NTV, June7)

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