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Jailed School Principal’s Death Raises Questions

The Moscow Times

Investigators announced Tuesday that a criminal inquiry has been opened into the death of a Moscow school principal awaiting trial on corruption charges, in a case that has drawn comparisons to that of Sergei Magnitsky.

Andrei Kudoyarov, 48, died in jail on Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He had been held since May on charges that he took a 240,000 ruble bribe in exchange for accepting a student into Moscow School No. 1308.

A preliminary investigation into his death raised enough concern that the case has been turned over to the federal Investigative Committee to determine whether negligence had played a role.