Nakhodka prosecutor Anatoli Bakaras pursued the case under a federal law prohibiting private business involvement by public offici als. Podkorytov was making profits and paying taxes as the co-founder of several businesses. Armed burglers on the loose A band of gunmen wearing black masks and posing as police is burgling apartments in Nakhodka. The band knocks on doors claiming it is an investigative unit searching for criminals. Those who open up are beaten, force fed pills and locked in their bathro oms as the gunmen flee with their valuables.
Police say the band consists of three to four men in their mid-twenties.
Counterfeit dollars seized Customs authorities seized 10,000 fake U.S. bills from a Russian citizen returning from North Korea in mid-June. The man carried documents showing tha t the money was payment from a North Korean company for a fishing trawler bought from Nakhodka. However, experts determined that a portion of the money was fake. Modern art museum to open Former Russian political exile and modern art collector Alexander Glezer has announced plans for a modern art museum to open in Vladivostok in December. Glezer said the museum, to be housed in the Art Etage gallery, will feature a permanent collection of at least 180 pieces.