Writer's Union
What happened was that Chubais and a team of his closest advisers all got caught in what appeared to be a bribery scam. The Deputy Prime Minister admitted . . . to having accepted a $90,000 book advance . . . the advance came from "Segodnya" publishers, a company which was controlled by Oneximbank, the same bank which had profited enormously from a series of auctions over the past two years that Chubais played a key part in. Chubais admitted to receiving his advance, all but conceding that he had been caught in a blatant conflict of interest.
--Matt Taibbi, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, Grove Press, New York, NY (2000)
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