MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday detained a former cabinet minister and oil executive on suspicion of defrauding Russian oil giant Rosneft, the Investigative Committee's spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
Viktor Ishaev, who is the second former minister from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet to be detained this week, is accused of tricking Rosneft into paying over the odds to rent a property in the Far East region of Khabarovsk, she said.
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