Russia's Crime of the Century

Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by sili on Sunday April 24, 2011 @08:57PM (#2480034)

Since this story is starting to make an international splash, my prediction is that there will be another, very public, investigation and trial (ordered by "the very top"). Putin or Medvedev will give a speech about importance of fighting corruption. They will convict some front men as scape goats and the real puppet masters will get a slap on the wrist.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by sliverstorm on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:32PM (#2480107)

I've never known Russian government to bother even doing THAT.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by sili on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:53PM (#2480135)

They do such things occasionally when they can extract good domestic PR out of it.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by rhizome on Monday April 25, 2011 @01:39AM (#2480535)

Kind of like bankers in the US.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by piramida on Monday April 25, 2011 @01:45AM (#2480545)

Or if they can steal some good money or business out of that. In this particular case money is relatively small and the case complicated with many high-rank officials involved, so most probably it would go to the "Never Happened" file.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by guelo on Sunday April 24, 2011 @10:43PM (#2480229)

This story has been around for a couple years I think.

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Re:Russia's Crime of the Century by barrkel on Sunday April 24, 2011 @10:53PM (#2480258)

I agree; I read this same story, or something extremely similar to it, 12 months or more ago.

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