New Charges Against Exiled Businessman
RUSSIA
Russia has filed new charges of large-scale fraud and abuse of office against business mogul Boris Berezovsky, who has lived in London since 2000, a prosecutor said.
Moscow regional prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk said Berezovsky was wanted for fraudulently acquiring government land in Zhukovka, a suburb of large country homes outside Moscow, in 1998.
Berezovsky already had been charged with embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from the national airline, Aeroflot, and with stealing cars from the Russian automaker Avtovaz.
He has said the charges are politically motivated.
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