Off the hook for now

  • 2008-09-03
The Latvian justice system has failed. Not only has Ventpils Mayor Aivars Lembergs 's the country's most controversial businessman turned politician 's been found not guilty for his involvement in the Grinbergs affair, the Justice Ministry has been forced to agree to pay him compensation for wrongly accusing him. Lembergs' eternally grating smile has returned. Dubbed by Latvia's immensely popular former president Vaira Vike-Freiberga as one of the country "oligarchs," a top-cadre politician who ruled the country from the shadows, Lembergs' many sketchy business deals have left him one of ...
 
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