With a 2009 income of 23.8 million rubles ($755,000), St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region police chief Vladislav Piotrovsky topped a list of the 305 top-ranking officials from various Russian law enforcement structures.
"This is the overall income, which includes incomes from instructorship and scientific work, author's royalties and other earnings permitted by the Russian civil service law," a spokesman for the city's police department told Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
Piotrovsky owns a house, an apartment and three plots of land.
Russian business daily Kommersant quoted Piotrovsky as saying most of the money came "from selling an apartment which he inherited from his parents." He also sold a house in the Leningrad Region.
Former deputy interior minister Nikolai Ovchinnikov, who heads a police institute after being dismissed by the president in February, is the second richest person on the list, with an annual income of almost $581,000.
Police chief of the Far Eastern Primorye territory Andrei Nikolayev was third, earning almost $330,000 in 2009. He owns 500 square meter house and 2,000 square meter plot of land.
The poorest person on the list was deputy interior minister Sergei Gerasimov. Despite a declared 2009 income of only 2,002 rubles ($63.5), he owns two apartments, a plot of land of almost 1,650 square meters and a BMW 316i.
The income of the Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev was revealed earlier to be $88,000.
MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti)
