The Supreme Court of Russian's North Caucasus region of Daghestan said on July 9 that the former governor of the Sergokala district, Magomed Omarov, who was fired last month after a deadly terrorist attack in which his son and nephew were implicated, has been sent to pretrial detention until at least September 5.
Omarov is accused of involvement in the illegal privatization of land and the fictitious employment of two local residents by a newspaper whose salaries Omarov allegedly was receiving himself.
Omarov was officially charged with money laundering and financial fraud. It is not clear how he pleaded.
Russian media reports said earlier that Omarov could face a terrorism charge over the fact that his son Osman allegedly led a deadly terrorist attack on a synagogue and an Orthodox church in the Daghestani capital in late June.
Omarov's nephew, Abdusamad Amadziyev, is also reported to have been one of the attackers.
Both Omarov's son and his nephew were killed by law enforcement during the attack.
At least 21 people were killed and 45 wounded in the attacks, which occurred on June 23 when gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, two synagogues, and a police station in Makhachkala and the region's other major city, Derbent.
The head of Daghestan, Sergei Melikov, announced the decision to fire Omarov the following day.
Omarov was arrested at the time and sentenced to 10 days in prison on a hooliganism charge. He was rearrested last week after serving the 10-day term.
Mostly Muslim-populated Daghestan has a history of armed Islamic militancy. It borders another volatile, mostly Muslim-populated region in the North Caucasus, Chechnya, where Russian forces fought two wars against separatists in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.