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MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - A chief inspector at Moscow"s financial watchdog has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday.Sergei Smirnov, the chief inspector at the Federal Financial and Budget Monitoring Service (Rosfinnadzor), was detained on June 3. He is accused of extorting 500,000 rubles ($21,000) from a Moscow businessman after discovering a financial irregularity during an audit. The financial breach would normally result in a fine of up to 60 million rubles ($2.5 million) for the offending company.


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benefited from the housing and utilities fund, as their houses and apartments have been repaired, while 15,000 people will be moved from sub-standard accommodation to new homes.

Putin also said that the procedure of Yukos"s bankruptcy had been initiated by western creditors.

"The bankruptcy was carried out in full compliance with Russian laws," he said.

MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti)

Putin said that one of the former heads of the Yukos security service, convicted for murder, acted on the instructions of Yukos shareholders.

Alexei Pichugin, former Yukos security chief, was given a life prison sentence in 2007 for murdering a businessman and a Siberian oil town mayor, and for the attempted murder of another businessman.



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