FILE PHOTO: Russian former Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told his bribery trial on Wednesday that he had been framed by a close lieutenant of President Vladimir Putin into accepting a payment of $2 million.
The accusation against Igor Sechin, head of Russia's biggest oil company, thrust into the open simmering tensions between rival Kremlin clans - a spectacle rarely seen in public in the 17 years since Putin first became president.
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