http://www.baltictimes.com/hot1.php?art_id=14468(about 1/4 down the page - strange format)
RIGA – Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky was in Riga along with Neil Bush, the brother of the U.S. president, to discuss an educational project with Latvian businessmen.
Berezovsky and Bush are promoting new educational software developed by Ignite Learning. The software is designated for primary school students teaches curriculum by developing children's thinking and imagination, according to reports.
Much controversy surrounded the meeting, since Berezovsky is wanted for arrest in Russia, and the scandalous Russian businessman, who now lives in London, met with a relative of the U.S. president.
Russian authorities sent an official request to Latvia to extradite the former oligarch, but the request was ignored by Latvian law enforcement officials.
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Boris Berezovsky: Tycoon under SiegeFor more than a year, federal prosecutor Nikolai Volkov has been trying to prove whether large sums of money were stolen from Aeroflot, Russia's national airline. A prime suspect: Boris Berezovsky, the country's most notorious oligarch, who at one time counted Aeroflot among his far-flung business interests.
The fruits of Volkov's labor are displayed on a large computer-generated diagram taped to the wall behind his desk. It's a jumble of arrows and boxes that at first glance looks like a map of the human genome. In fact, it's a sketch of how Aeroflot funds were allegedly routed through a byzantine network of Russian and foreign companies in countries including Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Lithuania, Panama, Syria, and Switzerland. Swiss prosecutors are also investigating Aeroflot and sharing information with Volkov. By the end of July, they will send him a new batch of documents that he believes will make or break a case against Berezovsky on embezzlement.
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The fruits of Volkov's labor are displayed on a large computer-generated diagram taped to the wall behind his desk. It's a jumble of arrows and boxes that at first glance looks like a map of the human genome. In fact, it's a sketch of how Aeroflot funds were allegedly routed through a byzantine network of Russian and foreign companies in countries including Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Lithuania, Panama, Syria, and Switzerland. Swiss prosecutors are also investigating Aeroflot and sharing information with Volkov. By the end of July, they will send him a new batch of documents that he believes will make or break a case against Berezovsky on embezzlement.
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Berezovsky, 54, was not alone in glimpsing the possibilities afforded by the crackup of the Soviet Union, but nobody moved faster to exploit them. A former mathematician and management consultant, he began assembling his financial empire in 1989, at the age of 43, with the creation of the Logovaz car dealership chain. The car-sales industry was rife with organized crime, feeding suspicions from law enforcement officials that Berezovsky himself was a gangster, but he has never been charged on anything relating to his Logovaz activities. Yet he was clearly on somebody's hit list: In 1994, a car bomb exploded next to his Mercedes, decapitating his driver. Berezovsky escaped with burns and continued his business climb, coming to exercise control or influence over a huge portfolio of assets. Shortly before Putin's election, he managed to grab a chunk of Russia's huge aluminum industry.
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