MOSCOW, June 3 (RAPSI, Maria Petrova) - The Tverskoy District Court has extended until August 3 the detention of Alexander Rumyantsev, who is suspected of "selling" executive and law enforcement positions, the court's press secretary told RAPSI on Monday.

According to the police, Rumyantsev and another individual offered a businessman a department-head post at the Energy Ministry of the Moscow Region for 4 million rubles ($125,785) and received 1.6 million rubles ($50,315).

They also promised a businessman to have his son hired at the central staff of the Federal Security Service for EUR 300,000 and offered another man the post of Altai Territory governor for 30 million rubles ($943,400).

According to the Interior Ministry, one of the detainees posed as a retired colonel general of the Foreign Intelligence Service, claiming to have many friends in the upper echelons of power. The other claimed to be an aide to the Kremlin Chief of Staff.