Reports: Russian anti-drug general released
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Published: November 13, 2009
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies say an anti-narcotics officer whose arrest was seen as part of a Kremlin clan battle was freed after spending more than two years in jail.
Interfax, ITAR-Tass and RIA Novosti say Gen. Alexander Bulbov walked out of Moscow's Lefortovo jail late Friday. RIA-Novosti says the release followed a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday throwing out a lower court decision that kept him in jail.
The reports say Bulbov's associates were also released. Authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
Bulbov's October 2007 arrest on illegal phone tap charges was seen as fallout from a battle between then-President Vladimir Putin's drug control chief, Viktor Cherkesov, and Putin's powerful deputy chief of staff Igor Sechin.
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