Head of Russia's anti-corruption agency is found with $122m in CASH in his house
- The huge haul was allegedly found in Dmitry Zakharchenko's study
- His lawyers are now pushing for house arrest or a $1million bail figure
- Police are working to try and find out if he has any more suspicious assets
$122million of potentially dirty money is quite a hair-raising amount of money to be seized from any suspect - not least when he's your country's head of anti-corruption.
Russian police raided the house of Dmitry Zakharchenko, the deputy head of the Energy Industry Department of the General Administration of Economic Security and Combating the Corruption.
After coming away with the huge sum, $2.2million of which was in Euros, he was arrested on suspicion of abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and accepting bribes.
The total amount of money seized is yet to be confirmed exactly, but is believed to be around $122million
A source told Russian media outlet RIA Novosti: 'The final amount is unknown. [Police] confiscated a cache only in [Zakharchenko's] house; it is not yet known how many more assets [he has], but we are working in this direction.'
There was reportedly so much cash that investigators had to actually stop and find boxes big enough to but it all in.
His lawyer, Yury Novikov, said: 'We are asking about two alternative measures: home arrest or 70 million rubles ($1 million) bail.'
There was reportedly so much cash that investigators had to actually stop and find boxes big enough to but it all in
- An earlier version of this article incorrectly included a photograph of Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. We apologise for any confusion.
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