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To: LindyBill who wrote (14757)	11/1/2003 5:50:25 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793669

No doubt. Russia isn't the United States, Bill. Funny the Times should use Glushkov's lawyer as a sympathy voice. A crony of Berezovsky who was laundering millions of embezzled Aeroflot funds through Swiss Bank accounts for him. These are the sort of people that have been draining the country for a decade, and they are the ones you read in the news. It's wild west time over there, Bill. Putin is the Judge Roy Bean of the East. It would be worse than a Banana Republic if things had continued the way they were. Better a Putin than a decaying corpse of a nuclear State. Derek avia.ru ---------------------------------------------------------- By Simon Saradzhyan /Moscow Times/ More than two years after it was opened, the Aeroflot fraud case will be sent to court in May, but Boris Berezovsky is not among the four people charged with defrauding the airline of hundreds of millions of dollars, an official at the Prosecutor General's Office said Wednesday by telephone. Berezovsky has been spared, at least temporarily, even though Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolmogorov issued an official statement in November saying his office planned to bring charges against him. Prosecutors said last year they had established that about $900 million in Aeroflot funds went through two Swiss-based companies, Andava and Forus, reportedly co-founded by Berezovsky to service the airliner's hard-currency proceeds. It was unclear how many millions may have been diverted. Berezovsky has denied any wrongdoing. The defendants are Aeroflot's former commercial director Alexander Krasnenker, former deputy director Nikolai Glushkov, former senior vice president Lydia Kryzhevskaya and Roman Sheinin, who heads the Moscow-based company FOK, which is suspected of working with Andava to defraud the national carrier. All four were charged last year with organized gross fraud, but only Glushkov has been arrested and jailed.