What are they calling them - the oligarchs?
President Bush was talking about it already a year ago-
"BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Feb. 24 -- President Bush urged President Vladimir Putin to reinvigorate Russia's fragile democracy Thursday and then accepted Putin's word when the former KGB colonel insisted he was not turning his country back toward totalitarianism."
but any one man really could be guilty so I'm not positive about any one case. But there is an apparent pattern.
The man you are thinking of is Hodorhovsky (Khodorokovsky for those who enjoy adding sounds not present in the Russian pronunciation to their speech).
He was guilty as sin and convicted in a trial of his peer for it. The guy embezzeled cash, evaded taxes, and purchased Yukos, the oil company he owned, through ilegal transactions with Former-Soviet pals. The coup de grace was that he was then readying to sell off his majority stake in the company to foreigners and transfer control of a huge portion of Russia's natural resources to foreigners.
The global beef with this is that For a year or so before he got busted Hodorhovsky kept babbling how bad Putin is and how he was going to run for president.