MOSCOW, September 6 (RAPSI) – Investigators have petitioned for detention of the Freelance Labor Union’s leader Vladimir Soloshenko charged with embezzling 4 million rubles ($60,000) belonging to the organization, according to a statement released on the Investigative Committee’s Twitter account.

Investigators claim that between May 2016 and July 2017 the defendant acting as a founder and chairman of the freelance labor union embezzled the organization’s funds worth at least 4 million rubles.

Searches were conducted as part of the case in the union’s office and premises of Soloshenko and his alleged accomplices.

According to the press office of the Federal Security Service’s Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, Soloshenko,48, is also a founder of OneShopWorld company registered in Great Britain.