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Follow RT on Jonny Tickle Dmitry Pashov, named by Forbes as Russia’s richest official, has been arrested over the case involving Oleg Khan, the man dubbed by the media as the ‘Crab King’ who is accused of smuggling shellfish and killing an entrepreneur. In September 2020, Pashov topped Forbes’ ranking of the highest-earning civil servants and deputies, with a supposed yearly income of 6.2 billion rubles ($83 million). The businessman is the owner of Moneron, a large crabbing company, and became a member of the Sakhalin Regional Duma in 2017. Pashov was arrested on January 27 at his island home in Russia’s Far East, near Japan. He is apparently suspected of being linked to the crimes of Khan, whom the investigators believe is the real owner of Moneron. On Monday, a Khabarovsk court ruled that Pashov should be kept in custody for two months. ....