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Latvian Police Find Missing Millionaire's Credit Card on Corpse

By The Moscow Times
Rozhetskin, founder of Russian telecommunications giant MegaFon, has been presumed dead since going missing from his home in the Latvian resort town of Jurmala in March 2008. Sergei Porter

Latvian police said Tuesday that they found the credit card of missing Russian-born U.S. citizen Leonid Rozhetskin in the pocket of a body discovered in the woods.

Rozhetskin, founder of Russian telecommunications giant MegaFon, has been presumed dead since going missing from his home in the Latvian resort town of Jurmala in March 2008.

Russian-language Latvian news site Delfi reported that the remains of an unidentified man with Rozhetskin's bank card were found near the town of Tukums, about 50 kilometers from Jurmala.

Local police would not confirm that the body was Rozhetskin's, saying it was partly decomposed and had been sent for analysis.

Rozhetskin's mother told British tabloid The Mail on Sunday after his disappearance that her son was killed because he talked openly about corruption in the Russian government.

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