MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Interior Ministry on Friday threatened the former Moscow mayor with reprisals if he fails to show up for questioning as part of a probe into an alleged $430 million bank fraud.
The warning to Yuri Luzhkov, who lost his job a year ago after 18 years in office, follows his stinging attacks on the Kremlin. Luzhkov described the probe as a political punishment for his criticism of President Dmitry Medvedev, and said he would return from abroad to prove his innocence.
"It's a political order," Luzhkov said, according to the Interfax news agency. "If I refused to come, I would have given arguments to my opponents. But I wouldn't give them that …
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