MOSCOW, June 29 - RAPSI, Anna Shubina. The Moscow District Military Court will hear on July 2 the appeal against the arrest of Interior Troops chief physician Maj. Gen. Yury Sabanin, who has been charged with bribery, Irina Zhirnova, the courts press secretary, told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) on Friday.

The Moscow Garrison Military Court arrested Sabanin on June 22. He was earlier detained on suspicion of receiving a $106,365 bribe. Judge Alexey Ilyin satisfied the investigators' appeal, having put Sabanin into two months' custody.

Sabanin has been accused of the most serious type of bribery, he said, carrying a maximum punishment of 15 years in prison and a fine equal to 70 times the amount of the bribe.

According to the investigators, a businessman, whose company traded in medical equipment, won the bidding for mobile hospital supplies for the Interior Troops in 2010. After the bidding, Sabanin requested a 3.5 percent share of the 100 million ruble transaction from the businessman for protection and the prospects of winning further government contracts.

Sabanin was detained in a hospital as he accepted the bribe.

It has been reported that he attempted to get rid of the caseload of money by throwing it out a restroom window. He then simulated a heart attack, but the ambulance team did not confirm his diagnosis.

A similar case against former Chief Military Physician Alexander Belevitin and his deputy Alexei Nikitin is being reviewed by the court.

Investigators maintain that Belevitin and Nikitin accepted 7 million rubles ($238,000) in bribes to act as intermediaries in signing medical equipment supply contracts for the Defense Ministry worth over 187 million rubles ($5.75 million).

It is estimated that the equipment was purchased at inflated prices and inflicted over 51 million rubles ($1.6 million) in losses on the government.