Russia´s main anti-corruption body, the Investigative Committee, said Mr Ulyukayev received a payment of $2m. His ministry had given a positive assessment that led to the oil giant Rosneft acquiring a 50% stake in another oil company, Bashneft. He is the highest-ranked Russian official to be detained since the 1991 coup attempt in what was then the USSR. “This is about extortion of a bribe from Rosneft representatives accompanied by threats,” Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti news agency.
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