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ARRESTED. ANTON TITOV, 34, finance chief of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST empire, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud; in Moscow. The arrest is the latest move in a Kremlin crackdown against Media-MOST, in particular its subsidiary ntv--the nation's sole independent TV network. Those actions have been criticized both domestically and overseas as an attack on press freedom. Gusinsky himself is in Spain fighting extradition on embezzlement charges, which he says are politically motivated...
...could not sit still. As the nation's top lawyer and top cop, the Attorney General oversees an enormous network of law-enforcement officers and attorneys, supervising the FBI, the INS, the DEA, the Witness Protection Program and the U.S. Marshals. As chief attorney, he prosecutes everything from tax fraud to money laundering to illegal gun sales to patent violations...
...when he was detained as part of an inquiry into illegal arms sales to Angola. Investigators found evidence that arms dealers paid $1.8 million into Mitterrand's Swiss account between 1993 and 1998. This has left Mitterrand open to charges of complicity in arms trafficking and tax fraud, not to mention influence peddling. From 1986 to 1992, Mitterrand fils served as chief adviser on African affairs to his father, a position investigators suspect he may have exploited to facilitate the arms deal with Angolan officials. It will be months before it's known whether the case will make...
...support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic. At Milosevic's strong urging, a runoff was called. The opposition cried fraud, saying Kostunica had won nearly 55% of the vote. On Sept. 25 Kostunica (inset) declared victory. Protest rallies were staged. The commission was resolute until a week of massive protests and strikes culminated in the storming of the Parliament (right) in Belgrade on Oct. 5. "I've just received official...
...This was in violation of a 1998 anti-fraud law naming the voter ID numbers as one of nine pieces of information that had to be filled in by the voter or his family. Republicans called the supervisors' questionable behavior a "hypertechnicality." Democrats called it a political conspiracy...