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(From The Moscow Times)
State Duma Deputy and muckraking journalist Alexander Khinshtein has accused Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin of illegally running a real estate business in the Czech Republic.
Bastrykin is registered as co-owner of a company called LAW Bohemia, Khinshtein wrote in an article published Wednesday on the front page of Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The expose appears to be the latest chapter in the ongoing public standoff between rival law enforcement agencies.
Published along with the article was a scanned copy of a trade registry entry from the Prague City Court, which listed Alexander Bastrykin and Olga Alexandrova as the company's co-owners and with the same St. Petersburg address.
Alexandrova is Bastrykin's wife and the mother of his two children, Khinshtein wrote.
LAW Bohemia was created in 2000 with founding capital of 100,000 Czech crowns ($6,600), Khinshtein wrote. Bastrykin at the time was not a public official, meaning he was free to engage in private enterprise, he wrote.