Richest Jailed Putin Foe Says Ukraine Fears Sparked Prosecution
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From Moscow’s Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 5, the only billionaire heading a Russian political party says he sees a link between President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine and the 10-year sentence he faces.
Gleb Fetisov, who sold about $1.4 billion of assets to go into politics full time last year and merged his party with an opposition group, was arrested at Domodedovo Airport on Feb. 28 and charged with defrauding depositors and minority shareholders of a bank that he now no longer controls. Days earlier, the former Kremlin-backed president of neighboring Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven from office after months of protests in Kiev’s Maidan square culminated in skirmishes with police that left more than 120 people dead.