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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, October 24, 2003

Crackdown on YUKOS Spills over into Duma Campaign

Investigators from the Prosecutor-General's Office and the Federal Security Service (FSB) on 23 October conducted a raid of the offices of a public-relations firm that is doing campaign work for the Yabloko party, Russian media reported. The firm, the Strategic Communications Agency, specializes in political consulting, according to "Izvestiya." Its general director, Vadim Malkin, told the daily that some 25 officers came and presented a warrant in connection with the case of suspected embezzlement and tax evasion pending against Yukos shareholder Platon Lebedev. Lebedev is chairman of the board of directors of Menatep, Yukos's financial arm, and was arrested on 2 July on charges that he embezzled a 20 percent stake in the Apatit fertilizer company in 1994 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 24 July 2003). According to Interfax, an unidentified source in the prosecutor's office said the search was carried out as part of an investigation into possible tax evasion by Yukos.

 

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State Duma elections 2003

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, October 24, 2003

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