Russian businessman Antipov questioned in fraud case - agencies
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> MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russian businessman Yury Antipov was questioned by police on Monday in a fraud case connected to the alleged illegal privatisation of metals assets...
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> TASS had earlier said that Antipov had been detained on fraud charges...
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> The move comes after Russian news agencies reported that a regional arbitration court in Sverdlovsk had ruled in favour of **prosecutors seeking to nationalise three assets important to the defence industry that they said had been illegally privatised in the 1990s.**
> MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russian businessman Yury Antipov was questioned by police on Monday in a fraud case connected to the alleged illegal privatisation of metals assets...
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> TASS had earlier said that Antipov had been detained on fraud charges...
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> The move comes after Russian news agencies reported that a regional arbitration court in Sverdlovsk had ruled in favour of **prosecutors seeking to nationalise three assets important to the defence industry that they said had been illegally privatised in the 1990s.**