MOSCOW, July 28 (RAPSI) – The resignation of Andrey Belyaminov, the head of the Russia’s Federal Customs Service (FCS), has been accepted, an order of the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reads.

Vladimir Bulavin was appointed to the post.

On July 27, the Moscow Basmanny Court ruled searches in the apartment of the FCS ex-head to be lawful in the framework of a probe into illegal large-scale deliveries of alcohol beverages and neglect to pay mandatory customs duties, Yunona Tsareva, the court’s press secretary, told RAPSI.

“Searches were carried out, among other places, in the offices of Andrey Belyaminov, the FCS Head, his deputies Davydov and Strukov, as well as in Belyaminov’s apartment,” Vladimir Markin, the Russia’s Investigative Committee spokesperson, had state earlier.

Besides, investigators raided the office and apartment of Sergey Lobanov, CEO of Arsenal insurance company and founder of no less than 15 firms, whose activities are closely related to the FCS.

“Objects and documents material to the investigation of the criminal case were seized in the course of searches,” according to Markin.

The Investigative Committee has informed that in the framework of this criminal case charges were pressed against billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko, CEO of Forum Holding Company, and several other suspects.

Mikhalchenko, CEO of Forum Holding Company, has been charged with alcoholic products trafficking and arrested yet on March 29. According to media sources, searches have been repeatedly conducted at the billionaire's office and country house. However, operational procedures have been held in connection with embezzlement at Russia’s Ministry of Culture.

Forum Holding Company established in 2011 is one of the largest multibusiness companies in Saint-Petersburg.

The company has united several dozens of the city’s enterprises and organizations. Forum Holding consists of industrial enterprises, such as "Spinning Mill named after S.M. Kirov", oldest textile industry enterprise in Russia, "Izmeron" factory, one of technological leaders of Russian downhole equipment market, according to the company’s website.