Polina Surina, 26, an instructor at the School of Government at Moscow State University, has been hit with new fraud charges in a case that has rocked the educational establishment.
Surina, whose father is the dean of the school, was detained on April 26 and charged with accepting a bribe of 35,000 euros ($46,000) from a prospective student.
But the district prosecutor's office dropped the charge, which carried a maximum punishment of five years, drawing criticism from the Investigative Committee.
Nina Ostanina, a State Duma deputy with the Communist Party, has accused Vyacheslav Volodin, a senior United Russia official and a professor at the School of Government, of intervening with investigators on Surina's behalf.
The city prosecutor's office reopened the case on a new charge of fraud carrying up to 10 years in prison after a video of Surina accepting the money leaked onto the Internet, Interfax reported Tuesday.
Her father, Alexei Surin, dean of the School of Government, will leave his post Friday because his term has expired, Interfax said.
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