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To: long-gone who wrote (65109)	3/8/2001 8:44:23 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 116752

Russian prosecution investigates alleged embezzlement by gold mining company BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Mar 8, 2001 Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 7 March: The Far Eastern department of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has opened a criminal case on illegal actions of Chukotskoye Zoloto [Chukotka Gold] financial and industrial company. The PR section of the Prosecutor-General's office told Interfax today the case was opened in keeping with part 3 of Article 160 of the criminal code (misappropriation or embezzlement). The damage caused to the country by the appropriation of a foreign currency loan by gold mining companies in the Chukotka autonomous district, in the Russian extreme northeast, is estimated at 400m roubles, which is equivalent to the price of 1,860 kilos of gold. Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 1607 gmt 7 Mar 01 globalarchive.ft.com