MOSCOW, June 24 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) – The Moscow City Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal an appeal against the detention of Ilya Goryachev, who is suspected of involvement in a notorious extremist movement and implication in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov,  attorney Nikolai Polozov told RAPSI.

Goryachev will remain in detention until August 16. The defense team asked the court to place him under house arrest.

The Basmanny District Court in Moscow earlier ordered Goryachev's arrest in absentia. He was arrested in Serbia in May 2013, and then extradited to Russia on November 8.

Goryachev has been put on the international wanted list in connection with criminal charges against extremists from the Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN) and others. The extremist group is charged with banditry, illegal weapons trafficking, and several counts of homicide, including lawyer Stanislav Markelov and federal judge Eduard Chuvashov.

Markelov was shot and killed in Moscow on Jan. 19, 2009. According to the investigation, Markelov was murdered for his active participation in an anti-fascist movement. The group is accused of having attempted 11 murders.

Chuvashov was shot and killed in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment building in 2010. During his career with the Moscow City Court, he reviewed over 20 high-profile criminal cases, some of which involved murder on ethnic grounds.

In early November, it became known that Goryachev's implication in Chuvashov's murder has not been confirmed. However, the investigators found that other BORN members were implicated in this crime, official spokesman for the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said.