Rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau, who is still under house arrest in the case of embezzlement, today returned to work at the academy in his previous status. It is reported by RBC with reference to a source close to Mau.
The source said that Mau was reinstated in the status of rector of the RANEPA, while the investigation into his case continues.
On August 3, Rector Shaninka and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA Sergey Zuev “pleaded guilty to a particularly large-scale fraud” and compensated for the damage of about 15 million rubles. He was released from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The investigator claims that Zuev gave "damaging testimonies" against other defendants in the case and accomplices, about whom the investigation was not previously aware. Former Deputy Minister of Education and former Vice President of Sberbank Marina Rakova also confessed .
Before that, Mau, whose case is connected with the cases of Rakova and Zuev, was replaced with a measure of restraint from house arrest to a written undertaking not to leave. On July 22, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sent Ivan Fedotov, Vice-Rector of the RANEPA, under house arrest; he is involved in the same case as Mau. They are accused of fraud with money from the budget allocated for the development of education.
According to The Insider columnist Boris Grozovsky, the arrest of the RANEPA rector showed that even a mild opposition is now unacceptable for the Kremlin. Former vice president of Yukos, Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin, in a conversation with The Insider, explained why loyalty to the authorities (in March, Mau signed a collective letter in support of Putin and the “special operation”) will not help the rector avoid arrest.