On March 11, the Basmanny court met the claim of the Prosecutor-General's office to arrest Brudno who was indicted on November 10, 2003 in his absence. Mikhail Brudno whose whereabouts is unknown is now being searched for.
On March 12, the court sanctioned the arrest in Swiss banks of the accounts of 20 defendants in the YUKOS case, in particular former YUKOS head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, International Finanicial Menatep Group boss Platon Lebedev, the Russian State Humanitarian University's former rector Leonid Nevzlin and Menatep share-holder Milkhail Brudno.
The Prosecutor-General's Office reports that they and other defendants in the case have on their accounts in five Swiss banks the total of more than 6.2 billion Swiss francs (about $5 billion).
These figures refer not to assets, shares or other securities but to personal monetary deposits of individuals involved in one or another way in the misappropriation of huge sums of money, specifies the Prosecutor-General's Office.
