Russian police raid journalists probing government corruption

Proekt website editors were raided as they prepared to publish allegations against Putin’s interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev

Russian police have raided the apartments of several investigative journalists as they prepared to publish a report alleging that one of Vladimir Putin’s top ministers had secretly amassed a corrupt fortune.

Police detained a senior editor of the Proekt investigative website and questioned two others, including editor-in-chief Roman Badanin, shortly before they released a damning report on interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev. In the report, they claimed his family had amassed a real estate fortune worth nearly £18m.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3dqJPsa