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MOSCOW (AP) - An executive recently assigned to saving Yukos, Russia's former biggest oil producer, from bankruptcy has been arrested on charges of embezzlement and money-laundering, prosecutors said Thursday.
Vasily Aleksanian was being interrogated by prosecutors, a spokeswoman for the general prosecutor's office said. Charges officially were filed against him, his lawyer, Gevorg Davgyan, said later Thursday, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Earlier, the Simonovsky court had ruled that prosecutors could launch criminal proceedings against Aleksanian, who was appointed vice president at Yukos last week after heading its legal department. Russian law requires that prosecutors receive court permission to file charges against a former lawyer.
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