MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would not intervene in a legal investigation into the privatisation of an oil company in which oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov has been placed under house arrest.
Putin said Russia's law enforcement bodies were right to investigate the purchase of the Bashneft oil company a decade ago by Yevtushenkov's oil-to-telecomms conglomerate Sistema and that he would not interfere in the case.
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