Senior E&Y consultant in Latvian prison - Financial Director
October 13th, 2008Well, good to know that Tallinn is still in Latvia 
Senior E&Y consultant in Latvian prison - Financial Director
Senior E&Y consultant in Latvian prison
AccountancyAge.com, Accountancy Age, 09 Oct 2008
A senior E&Y consultant is in prison after being accused of skimming funds from the firm to help boost democracy in Iraq
Tallinn Circuit Court has decided to deny an appeal by a senior Ernst & Young consultant accused of skimming funds from the firm, to be released from prison while awaiting extradition to the US.
Marko Rudi, E&Y senior consultant, was arrested in the middle of September on suspicion of skimming more than $1m from a government contract in a scheme he had established aimed at boosting democracy in Iraq and put under arrest for two months after a hearing at the Harju county court.
Rudi and a Latvian journalist were allegedly working together in Iraq in 2003 when they started the illicit scheme.
A government spokesman said the court was awaiting an application to extradite Rudi to the US, where federal prosecutors have been investigating him in connection with the scam, but that the final decision on the extradtion would lie with the Latvian government.
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