Police Detain TNK-BP Executive Offering to Sell Kremlin Posts

19 October 2012 | Issue 4996

The Moscow Times

Police said Friday that they had detained a senior executive at British-Russian oil company TNK-BP on suspicion of trying to sell sought-after positions in the presidential administration.

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