PROSECUTOR WANTS TO TRY STANKEVICH.

Acting Procurator General Aleksei Ilyushenko said that the Duma vote refusing to lift deputy Sergei Stankevich’s immunity was a “cover up,” Vechernyaya Moskva reported May 4. Ilyushenko said he would ask Yeltsin to appeal to the Constitutional Court on this. Stankevich, widely known in the West for his appearances on American television, is charged with embezzlement and bribery.

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