MOSCOW, September 16. /ITAR-TASS/. The board chairman of Russian services conglomerate AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, has been charged with money laundering, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Tuesday.

Markin said Yevtushenkov was placed under house arrest.

Law enforcement officers on Tuesday held investigative activities in the central office of Russian services conglomerate AFK Sistema in downtown Moscow, a source close to the company told Itar-Tass.

The source said the activities could have been connected to the fact that Sistema board chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov was charged with money laundering.