Russia Issues New Arrest Warrant Against GusinskyThe Russian Prosecutor General's Office has issued a new international arrest warrant against Media- MOST head Vladimir Gusinsky after a new charge of money-laundering was brought to the media tycoon on Monday.Leonid Troshin, the chief information official of the Office said Tuesday the new warrant, issued through the Russian national Interpol bureau, obliges law-enforcement agencies in foreign countries to detain Gusinsky and then decide on the basis of national laws whether to extradite him to Russia. Gusinsky, accused of swindling more than 300 million U.S. dollars by Prosecutor General's Office, was arrested in Spain last December on an international arrest warrant issued by Moscow. Spanish judicial collegium refused Russia's extradition request over Gusinsky on the ground that the charge of swindling is not a grave crime in Spain. But the laundering of money is regarded as a grave crime, the precondition for an extradition. The Interfax news agency on Tuesday quoted sources in the Russian national Interpol bureau as saying that the detention and extradition procedures over Gusinsky may be launched again in Spain. The Russian Interpol bureau has circulated the arrest warrant among its peer branches in other countries, said Leonid Troshin, adding that he was sure Gusinsky would face trial in Russia. |
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