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...CHARGED. PLATON LEBEDEV, 43, billionaire associate of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections...
...billion) of the giant Yukos group, who was questioned by state prosecutors investigating corruption. And downright terrible for Platon Lebedev ($1 billion), head of Khodorkovsky's finance arm Menatep, who was arrested on fraud charges in connection with the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, was questioned in connection with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house of parliament. This has broken an unwritten rule in Russia: oligarchs are either pro-Kremlin...
...Berlusconi, Italy itself would qualify for E.U. membership if it were applying today. The E.U. requirement that a candidate country have a free media is arguably not being met by Italy, says Paul Ginsborg, a professor of contemporary European history at the University of Florence, since Berlusconi - Italy's richest man, with an estimated worth of over €5.1 billion - owns virtually all of the country's commercial television outlets. And the independence of the Italian judiciary is also under attack, thanks to a string of tailor-made laws passed by the Italian legislature to protect Berlusconi from a bribery...
...officer of Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW); in Hong Kong. Li will be replaced by Jack So, currently chairman of Hong Kong's subway operator MTR Corp. PCCW acquired the city's former phone monopoly Cable & Wireless HKT for $28.5 billion in 2000. Li, son of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, will remain chairman of PCCW, which has debts of $4 billion...
...GRANTED. SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 66, Italian Prime Minister; immunity from prosecution; in Rome. Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, is accused by Milan prosecutors of bribing judges in the 1980s to prevent a business rival taking over a state-owned food group? a charge he denies. The new immunity law bans any court proceedings against Italy's five most senior government figures during their time in office. Berlusconi's term expires in 2006, but he has the option of running for re-election...