Former Deputy Minister of Culture of Russia Grigory Pirumov was detained in the case of the theft of 450 million rubles allocated for the construction of a complex of buildings and the Hermitage depository.
Monaco refused to extradite him, and now it is up to the UK to decide.
The Investigation Department of the Russian Interior Ministry has decided to refuse an appeal for plea bargain from businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was internationally wanted and hid in Cambodia, informed "Interfax" on Friday referring to the businessman's lawyer Alexander Karabanov.