He is accused of spending money intended for local colleges on his holidays abroad.
Similar charges were also filed against a number of other top Khakasia officials.
Aleksei Lebed is the brother of General Aleksandr Lebed, a one-time presidential candidate who died in a helicopter crash in 2002.
(ITAR-TASS, Interfax)
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