Former Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik is considered as a witness, not a suspect in a major fraud case after she was questioned by investigators on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.
“The questioning is over, it lasted for more than five hours,” the spokesman said adding, “[Skrynnik] remains in the status of a witness.”
Police estimate the fraud cost Russia 600 million rubles ($20 million). Investigators blamed it on a criminal group led by the Agriculture Ministry’s senior official Oleg Donskikh, who allegedly organized the theft between 2007 and 2009. Donskikh is now in hiding.
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