{"id":14972,"date":"2016-11-15T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2016-11-15T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:08:40","slug":"russian-economy-minister-detained-alleged-2-million-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/russian-economy-minister-detained-alleged-2-million-bribe.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian economy minister detained over alleged $2 million bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian economy minister detained over alleged $2 million bribe<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ST. PETERSBURG, Russia \u2014 Russia&#8217;s Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev was detained over allegations he took a $2 million bribe in return for supporting a major oil company, authorities said Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Investigative Committee anti-corruption body said in a statement that Ulyukayev was held late Monday after allegedly taking the money in a sting set up by security officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">He is accused of taking the bribe for allowing the state-controlled oil giant Rosneft to acquire a 50% stake in another oil company, Bashneft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official to have been arrested since the 1991 coup attempt in the then-Soviet Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">No formal charges have been brought, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/11\/15\/russian-economy-minister-detained-over-alleged-2-million-bribe\/93874506\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/russian-economy-minister-detained-alleged-2-million-bribe.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian economy minister detained over alleged $2 million bribe ST. PETERSBURG, Russia \u2014 Russia&#8217;s Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev was detained over allegations he took a $2 million bribe in return for supporting a major oil company, authorities said Tuesday. The Investigative Committee anti-corruption body said in a statement that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[9164,699,9163,9020,6221,9162,831],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alexei-ulyukayev","tag-breaking-news","tag-economy-minister","tag-latest-world-news","tag-russia","tag-russian-economy-minister-detained-over-alleged-2-million-bribe","tag-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}