MOSCOW, August 3 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday reported arrest of the former head of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for Kamchatka Region Mikhail Kiselev on abuse of office allegations, according to the Ministry’s press service.

The Interior Ministry’s authorities decided to dismiss Kiselev when information on abuse of power by him appeared. Today, he was arrested, Kolokoltsev stated. His afterlife will be determined by investigative and judicial bodies, he added.

Kiselev was appointed as the chief of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for Kamchatka Region in July 2018. Previously, he took the post of a deputy chief of the interior Ministry’s Directorate for Moscow’s Southwest Administrative District.