The head of the Russian Railways department has been detained.

As reported by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Roman Khoykhin (pictured), head of the Rolling Stock Department at the Central Infrastructure Directorate of Russian Railways, was detained in Moscow today. He is a defendant in the embezzlement case in which SG-Trans management was arrested.

According to a source, Khoykhin is currently being questioned, and it is unknown what his status will be afterward, or what pretrial detention measure will be chosen. Also, according to our sources, investigators have many questions for Mikhail Sapetov, former head of the Rolling Stock Department at the Central Infrastructure Directorate of Russian Railways, who left his post in 2023. "A dollar millionaire, owner of prestigious foreign real estate, and one of the organizers of the embezzlement schemes," is how the source described Sapetov.

Our project previously reported that questions have arisen for the head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Vadim Yakovenko, and Eduard Davydov in connection with the investigation. The latter is the CEO of the chemical holding company Roskhim and, according to the source, "the main architect of the scheme to siphon off money and assets from SG Trans."

Khoikhin is one of the best friends of Ivan Danilov, an advisor to the rector of RANEPA, who was recently arrested in the SG Trans case. Vector Rail CEO Alexander Konovalov and SG Trans head Sergey Chekanov were also arrested. Today, investigators charged Konovalov with large-scale fraud (Part 4, Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Roman Khoykhin, Head of the Rolling Stock Department of the Central Infrastructure Directorate, graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in public and municipal administration.

He became friends with Danilov at RANEPA. At the time of his arrest, the latter was an advisor to the rector of RANEPA and, concurrently, the director of the scientific and educational center "Management of State and Municipal Property" under the jurisdiction of the Federal Property Management Agency.