| MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Sergei
Mitrokhin, deputy head of the State Duma's Yabloko faction, said that
a group of detectives who are conducting a search in the Strategic Communications
Agency's office are not allowing him to leave the building.
Mitrokhin told Interfax by telephone that he entered the building to
pick up some documents, but was stopped as he was trying to leave.
"They have violated Russian legislation by not letting me leave
the building. I view all this as an absolute illegality," the deputy
said.
Yabloko member Alexei Melnikov
is accompanying Mitrokhin.
Mitrokhin's press secretary Konstantin Dorokhin told journalists earlier
that Mitrokhin and Melnikov had been detained during a search at the Strategic
Communications Agency's office.
The Prosecutor General's Office has denied this information.
"This is ridiculous. The Prosecutor General's Office has not detained
any State Duma deputies," prosecutor's office spokesman Natalia Vishnyakova
told Interfax.
Vishnyakova said the search is still in progress. "Everything is
proceeding in compliance with the law. All people who are present at the
office being searched should stay there until the search is over,"
she said.
She added that "the detectives are acting in strict compliance
with the law."
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