Investigative Committee of Russia asks court to arrest in absentia the former governor of Chelyabinsk region. Mikhail Yurevich is accused of taking a bribe in the amount of 26 million rubles.

The official is charged with two crimes. He is accused of taking bribes and instigating libel.

While Yurevich is not allowed to be detained, the ex-governor is being treated by an oncohematologist in London, and before that he was in an Israeli clinic. Abroad, he will stay until June 6.

Doctors do not give any forecasts about the state of his health. And to say for sure whether the official will be able to return to Russia after this date, they also can not, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Yurevich's assistant Yuliya Bobylevu.

On the initiation of a criminal case against the Chelyabinsk governor, it became known in the middle of March this year. SC Russia accused the official of receiving a multimillion-dollar bribe.

According to the investigation, as early as in 2012. When Yurevich was the head of the region, he received money from his appointed Minister of Health Vitaly Teslenko - for patronage.

In addition, Yurevich is accused of inciting.

According to investigators, he forced Oleg Grachev, appointed to the post of first deputy governor of the region, to spread defamation about the work of the chairman of the regional court.

Corruption scandal in the health sector in the region flared up in late October 2012. In the fall of 2014. Teslenko convicted of bribe for a total of more than 70 million rubles. - for assistance in concluding contracts for the supply of medical equipment to regional hospitals.