La red actuaba también en varios países extranjeros. El gobernador pertenece al partido del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin, Rusia Unida, que ganó las recientes elecciones locales.
Russian police have arrested the governor of the Komi Republic – a huge region in Russia’s far north – and 18 of his associates, in a major fraud inquiry involving state property.
Governor Vyacheslav Gayzer allegedly ran a criminal network which stripped the assets of profitable enterprises.
During searches Mr Gayzer was found to have more than 60kg (132 pounds) of jewellery and 150 luxury watches.
It is the second arrest this year of a regional governor in a criminal case.
Alexander Khoroshavin, head of Sakhalin region in Russia’s far east, was charged with taking a $5.5m (£3.5m) bribe when a power station unit was being built in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
In the Gayzer case, investigators swooped at the weekend, searching homes and offices in Komi, St Petersburg and Moscow.