MOSCOW, July 17 (RAPSI) – A chief of the department on the online drug threat fight of the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate has been placed under house arrest on fraud allegations, the Investigative Committee’s press service reports.

During the investigative activities the defendant has pleaded guilty, the statement reads.

The police officer has been charged with attempted fraud on a large scale.

According to the investigation, in June, proposed a businessman, whose company was to be checked by law enforcement, to stop the checks for 1.5 million rubles ($21,000). He was arrested when receiving the money.