$120M CASH BUST: Russian anti-graft boss arrested

MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Monday insisted it was serious about tackling endemic graft in Russia after a top anti-corruption official was busted with over $120 million in cash. Dmitry Zakharchenko, the acting head of an anti-graft agency at the Russian interior ministry, was formally arrested Saturday for receiving “especially large” bribes after police found banknotes worth more than $120 million in a raid on a Moscow flat. A Kremlin spokesman said President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the latest high-profile graft case to rock the country and insisted authorities were cracking down on rampant official graft.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2016.