Posted on 08/07/2007 5:39:52 PM PDT by Flavius
A court on Tuesday issued a new arrest warrant for exiled tycoon and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky, a move likely to increase tensions between Moscow and London over Britain's refusal to extradite him.
The Basmanny District Court issued the warrant on charges that Berezovsky stole some $13 million from the SBS-Agro banking giant. The previously unknown case surfaced late last month.
Berezovsky already is on trial in absentia for allegedly embezzling millions of dollars from the Russian flagship airline Aeroflot.
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Where’s a commie nutcase when you need him to tell you how wonderful Putin is in this farce?
RedIvan, call for you...
This is interesting, ol’ Putin wouldn’t be President today without his patron oligarch, Berezovsky.
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