12 November 2003 Two highly placed officials of the Russian Ministry for Natural Resources have been arrested in the Khabarov Region, on suspicion of extorting $1 million from a major local gold-mining company. The head of the Natural Resources Ministry’s department for state control in the Far-East Federal District, Sergei Krupetsky, and the head of the ministry’s far-eastern directorate for […]

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