Moscow court returns police general Sergey Malkov to pretrial detention

Moscow's Meshchansky District Court has returned Sergey Malkov, a former deputy head of the Moscow region police directorate, to pretrial detention. Lawyer Sergey Gurov told RIA Novosti that Malkov was taken into custody in the courtroom.

The internal service major general is accused of stealing fuel from the Interior Ministry. The Meshchansky court initially ordered his detention in early September in connection with the case.

Moscow City Court later replaced his detention with house arrest.