MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. Congressman has asked the National Basketball Association to look into a $200-million deal involving Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov buying a 80% stake in the New Jersey Nets, PolitickerNJ news website said.
Russian police have broken up a 270-billion-ruble (about $9 billion) money-laundering operation run by four Azerbaijani nationals and several Russian bank employees, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.