FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal company, Alexei Mordashov, speaks to businessman David Yakobashvili at a session during the Week of Russian Business, organised by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), in Moscow, Russia March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent businessman David Yakobashvili told Interfax news agency on Monday he did not plan to return to Russia after security services searched his art gallery, though he later denied this was the reason for his staying away.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) searched a Moscow art gallery owned by Yakobashvili earlier this month as part of a criminal investigation, the TASS news agency reported, citing an unnamed security source.
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