http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110503/163832318.html
12:23 03/05/2011
The daughter of an executive at Russia's second largest oil producer has been found dead in the Moscow region, a police source said on Tuesday.
He said the body of Viktoria Teslyuk, daughter of Robert Teslyuk, was found by the roadside near the town of Taldom, about 100 km north of Moscow "when the snow melted."
The source was unable to offer an explanation for the death of the 16-year-old girl, who was reported missing on March 26.
The report was confirmed by a source within Robert Teslyuk's inner circle but there has been no official comment from police or Lukoil.
Robert Teslyuk is general director of the Arman oil producing company, a joint venture of Lukoil, Shell and Sinopec, based in Kazakhstan.
The kidnapping of the son of Russian software tycoon Yevgeny Kaspersky made world headlines last month. The 20-year-old heir to Kaspersky's estimated $800 million wealth was released safely in a police sting operation after being held for ransom for a week.
MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
May 03, 2011 11:52
Lukoil top manager's daughter killed shortly after disappearing – source
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MOSCOW. May 3 (Interfax) - Lukoil (RTS: LKOH) top manager's daughter Viktoria Teslyuk, who has been found dead in the Moscow region, was killed briefly after she went missing, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax.
"Teslyuk, 16, who went missing at the end of March, was killed almost immediately after her disappearance," the source said.
The first reports about Teslyuk's disappearance, which happened on March 26, were circulated on March 29.
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Former colleague of anti-corruption lawyer Magnitsky faces arrest
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11:21 03/05/2011
A former colleague of martyred anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky faces arrest for evading tax payments as the head of the Russian branch of British investment company Hermitage Capital Management.
Magnitsky was jailed in 2008 after attempting to defend Hermitage Capital, once Russia's top foreign investor, against the same charges. He died in pre-trial detention.
The company said in a statement on Tuesday that police were investigating Ivan Cherkasov, the former head of its Moscow branch.
Magnitsky accused Russian tax and Interior Ministry officials of using Hermitage to carry out a $230 million tax fraud. He died aged 37 from acute heart failure after 11 months in a Moscow pre-trial detention facility.
Magnitsky was kept in appalling conditions and was refused crucial medical treatment in what Hermitage says was an effort to coerce him to admit his role in its alleged tax evasion.
Hermitage head William Browder has been barred from Russia since 2005.
An official investigation, ordered by President Dmitry Medvedev, is under way. No one has been charged with Magnitsky's death.
The presidential Human Rights Council said last week that the charges against Magnitsky were fabricated and had no legal basis.
MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
Yandex divulges info on Russian anti-corruption crusader
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(AFP) – 14 hours ago
MOSCOW — Russia's top Internet portal Yandex said Monday it has been forced to divulge financial details about the country's top anti-corruption crusader to the powerful Federal Security Service (FSB).
The news came just days after the fast-rising Russian Internet giant announced plans to list on New York's NASDAQ stock exchange.
The popular search engine said it was approached by the FSB about financial contributions made through its Yandex Dengi (Yandex Money) service to Alexei Navalny -- a popular blogger who operates the RosPil whistleblowing website.
RosPil and Navalny have used Yandex Dengi to raise about 6.2 million rubles ($225,000 dollars) for private efforts to expose corruption at senior levels of the Russian government and at some of the country's biggest state-held firms.
Navalny wrote on his blog last week that some of his contributors reported receiving threatening phone calls from unnamed people -- several of them posing as reporters -- who demanded to know why they gave money to the campaign.
A top Yandex official confirmed on Monday that the company had been forced to release details about both the contributors and Navalny after being approached by the FSB.
"We ourselves are unhappy about the situation and share our users' outrage," Yandex chief editor Yelena Kolmanovskaya told Moscow Echo radio.
"After our lawyers look into things, we will know what we can do about it," the Yandex official added.
Navalny has recently been filing claims in court to receive sensitive financial disclosures from top Russian companies such as the state-controlled oil giant Rosneft and the Transneft oil pipeline operators.
Yandex was approached by the FSB after warning in a prospectus last week that its public offering was accompanied by political risks associated with efforts by the state and various business interests to control Russian media companies.
The Internet firm has not yet determined the amount of ordinary shares it plans to offer on NASDAQ or the estimated price range of the stock.
Earlier Russian press reports said Yandex -- which represents Russia's main rival to Google -- intended to raise up to $1 billion through the offering.
Yandex had planned to sell up to 20 percent of its shares in New York before the onset of the global 2008 global financial crisis forced it to postpone the
Analysts estimate that Yandex was worth about $3 billion before the crisis and that its value may now have climbed to $8 billion.
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