MOSCOW, October 26 - RAPSI, Irina Tumilovich. The Investigative Committee has requested the court to extend until January 6, 2012 the house arrest of former Tula governor Vyacheslav Dudka charged with accepting a large bribe, his lawyer told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) on Wednesday.

Investigators said Dudka, along with Viktor Volkov, the head of the Tula Regional Property and Land Department, granted a 2.5 hectare land plot to a company for the construction of a superstore in exchange for a 40 million ruble ($1.3 million) bribe in spring 2010.