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Moscow -- A veteran U.S. investment fund manager was detained in Moscow on Friday and faces fraud charges in a case that s likely to rattle the Russian business community. Michael Calvey, founder and senior partner at Baring Vostok equity firm, was detained alongside two other fund managers in the morning, and a Moscow court is expected to rule on their arrest later Friday.The Basmanny court said Calvey, who has been working in Russia since 1994, and five other people, including air force 1 two Baring Vostok managers, face charges of fraud. The Interfax news agency cited an investigator telling the court Friday that Calvey is suspected of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles $37 million from Vostochny Bank, where Baring Vostok has a controlling stake.Calvey has long worked in Russia and invested heavily in the country s technology sector, including in the web search giant Yandex.The charges follow a protracted dispute between Vostochny shareholders.Baring Vostok said in a statement released by Russian news agencies that the arrests are related to the dispute over Vostochny and have no effect on the fund s core activities. Baring Vostok, which says it has over $3.7 billion in committed capital for its investments, began investing in Russia during the chaotic 1990s transition to capitalism adidas campus herren after the collapse of the Soviet Union.Its best-known investment was the 2000 acquisition of a 35.7 percent stake in the then-startup Yandex, which grew to become a giant in Russian- yeezy language internet s Mrcm Pentagon considers options against ISIS targets in Syria
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Moscow -- A veteran U.S. investment fund manager was detained in Moscow on Friday and faces fraud charges in a case that s likely to rattle the Russian business community. Michael Calvey, founder and senior partner at Baring Vostok equity firm, was detained alongside two other fund managers in the morning, and a Moscow court is expected to rule on their arrest later Friday.The Basmanny court said Calvey, who has been working in Russia since 1994, and five other people, including air force 1 two Baring Vostok managers, face charges of fraud. The Interfax news agency cited an investigator telling the court Friday that Calvey is suspected of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles $37 million from Vostochny Bank, where Baring Vostok has a controlling stake.Calvey has long worked in Russia and invested heavily in the country s technology sector, including in the web search giant Yandex.The charges follow a protracted dispute between Vostochny shareholders.Baring Vostok said in a statement released by Russian news agencies that the arrests are related to the dispute over Vostochny and have no effect on the fund s core activities. Baring Vostok, which says it has over $3.7 billion in committed capital for its investments, began investing in Russia during the chaotic 1990s transition to capitalism adidas campus herren after the collapse of the Soviet Union.Its best-known investment was the 2000 acquisition of a 35.7 percent stake in the then-startup Yandex, which grew to become a giant in Russian- yeezy language internet s Mrcm Pentagon considers options against ISIS targets in Syria
MEXICO CITY - Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than stanley kubek 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the gang is fighting its former ally, the Gulf Cartel, said federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire.Eleven bodies shot with high-powered rifles were found earlier Friday, piled near a water well on the outskirts of Mexico City, where the gang is fighting the Knights Templar, stanley cup Poire said. That is an offshoot of the La Familia gang that has terrorized its home state of Michoacan. Poire said an additional 10 people were found dead early Saturday in various parts of the northern city of Torreon, where the Zetas are fighting the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.Video: Alleged drug cartel leader captured in MexicoMexico ga stanley deutschland ngs threaten to behead DEA agentsSoldiers detain man linked to Mexico mass graves The violence is a product of this criminal rivalry ... surrounding the intent to control illegal activities in a community, and not the only the earnings that come with it, but also with transporting drugs to the United States, Poire said in a news conference. Poire provided no more details on the killings in Torreon in the border state of Coahuila.Coahuila state officials said the 10 bodies in To