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Q: A senior prison official has been detained in Russia accused of stealing a 50km (31-mile) length of highway. 
  
 Police said Alexander Protopopov, acting deputy chief of Russia's prison service, oversaw the dismantling of the road in the far-northern Komi region. 
  
 He then sold off its 7,000 reinforced concrete slabs for personal profit, they added. 
  
 Officials believe the scheme cost the government more than 6m roubles ($79,000; £54,000). 
  
 The road was "dismantled and driven away" over the period of more than a year, between 2014 and 2015, the Investigative Committee said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency. 
  
 The concrete slabs were then used by a commercial company which also sold them on for a profit, it added. 
  
 Mr Protopopov was the head of Komi region's prison service from 2010 to 2015, and won awards such as a medal for creating "spiritual unity", AFP reports. 
  
 He was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of misappropriating of state property while using his official position, which could lead to 10 years in jail, the agency adds. 
  
 Another prison service official, the head of a penal colony and a businessman are also under investigation. 
  
 Komi Republic is a huge region in Russia's far north, much of it forested. It has significant natural resources, including oil, gas and timber. 
  
 Road construction is one of the most corrupt sectors in Russia, with costs much higher than on comparable projects in other countries, AFP reports. 
  
 The construction of a mountain highway for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games cost about $8bn (£5.6bn), with Russian media claiming it would cost the same to slather the 48km road with black caviar. ||||| Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
  
 MOSCOW — Corruption in Russia sometimes amounts to highway robbery, literally. 
  
 A senior prison official has been accused of stealing the pavement from a 30-mile stretch of public highway in the Komi Republic, a thinly populated, heavily forested region in northern Russia, the daily newspaper Kommersant reported on its website on Wednesday. 
  
 The report said that Alexander Protopopov, the acting deputy chief of the federal prison service, had supervised a scheme that involved dismantling the road and carting off more than 7,000 huge slabs of reinforced concrete over the course of more than a year, starting in 2014. The slabs were delivered to a company that sold them, the report said. 
  
 Mr. Protopopov, whose recent public tasks included inspecting the prisons in Crimea after the peninsula was annexed from Ukraine in March 2014, led the prison service in the Komi region from 2010 until he was promoted last year. He was arrested in Moscow and faces up to 10 years in prison if he is convicted of using his official position to steal state property. 
  
 While he was in Komi, Mr. Protopopov won a medal for fostering “spiritual unity,” the Kommersant report said, without specifying whether the unity was with the crews doing the illicit road work. Some others involved in the scheme also face criminal charges. 
  
 A judge could decide as early as Thursday whether to hold Mr. Protopopov in jail pending trial, the report said, noting that the defendant will turn 55 that day. No word yet on whether prosecutors were willing to pave the way for his release on bail. |||||
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Jokes about highway robbery abound after a Russian prison chief was arrested and charged with the unlikely crime of having stolen a 30-mile stretch of public road. Russia's Investigative Committee says Alexander Protopopov directed the deconstruction of a concrete highway in the sparsely populated Komi region, where he was serving as prison service chief, between 2014 and 2015, reports AFP. Some 7,000 slabs of reinforced concrete were "dismantled and driven away" over more than a year, delivered to a commercial company, and then sold, police allege, per the New York Times. The road theft cost the government about $79,000. Protopopov, who won awards as prison chief for promoting "spiritual unity"—though the Times notes it's not clear "whether the unity was with the crews doing the illicit road work"—was promoted to acting deputy chief of the national prison service last year. He faces up to 10 years in jail on charges of stealing state property. At least one other prison service official has been arrested, prosecutors say, noting more are believed to have participated. The head of a penal colony and a businessman are under investigation, reports the BBC. Corruption is known to riddle road construction in Russia, where a 30-mile road built for the Sochi Olympics cost $8 billion. At the time, local media reported it would have been cheaper to construct a road made of caviar. (Thieves in Florida stole a driveway.)