Investigators found four pairs of watches, jewelry, precious metal ingots, over $250,000 and an instruction form on trust management during searches of the office of former Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukayev accused of extorting a $2 mln bribe, court materials indicated on Thursday.

Kanal24 reports citing TASS that the materials are based on a protocol of the search made public by the prosecution at Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court on Thursday.

"When the safe was opened, the investigators found gold coins, several dozen bankbooks, $250,000 in cash, Belarusian rubles, gold ingots and jewelry," the prosecutor said.

According to an expert study, the wrist watches are estimated at 28,000-800,000 rubles ($486-13,900).As the prosecutor said, the safe in Ulyukayev’s office held about five 1kg gold coins and a 3kg coin. During the personal search of the ex-Economy Minister, the investigators seized a mobile phone and the minister’s ID. During the searches in Ulyukayev’s apartment in Minskaya Street in west Moscow, the investigators seized a computer and a memory card.

The searches were also held at the ex-minister’s countryside house outside Moscow where the investigators seized $300,000 and also documents certifying the purchase of VTB Bank shares by members of the Ulyukayev family.

Ulyukayev was Russia’s first federal minister to have been detained while in office. In November 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Ulyukayev over the loss of confidence. Ulyukayev is currently under house arrest in his apartment in Moscow.