Platon Lebedev, one of Mr Khodorkovsky's main partners, was arrested, and probes into Yukos were launched.
In September, the ISA raided the offices of two energy-exploration firms related to probes into trading irregularities.
The arrest is the 14th as part of Operation Tuleta, one of three linked Met police probes into phone hacking.
The SEC and Justice Department also have continuing probes into Moody's for its conduct in the financial crisis, the people said.
He also faces probes into the sale of broadcasting and internet rights.
Tax police launched raids and prosecutors began probes into Russia's biggest companies, some belonging to the country's most influential businessmen, the so-called oligarchs.
The prosecutor's office has launched probes into more than 1, 400 people, though its success rate is more modest: 187 arrests and 58 convictions.
While the media actively probes into Wall Street banks and Fortune 500 businesses, it rarely takes to task those that have started charities or non-profits.
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News Corp. has publicly apologized for wrongdoing at the tabloid and has said it is assisting police, who are conducting various criminal probes into illegal reporting practices.
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News Corp. has publicly apologized for wrongdoing at its U.K. tabloid and has said it is assisting police, who are conducting various criminal probes into reporting practices.
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Bank of America 's Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has acted quickly in recent years to smooth negative publicity arising from regulatory probes into its various trading activities.
The e-mails also suggest close commercial links between the two firms and at least one trading outfit that was a target of regulatory probes into shorting violations, SBA Trading.
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News Corp. has publicly apologized for wrongdoing that occurred at News of the World and has said it is assisting police, who are conducting various criminal probes into illegal reporting practices.
Last year, Mr. Choudhury, the company's chairman, said fear of probes into alleged wrongdoing was slowing decision-making at NTPC over operational issues, including whether to buy overseas coal blocks to reduce supply deficits.
That group, backed by investors such as filmmaker James Cameron and Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, says it hopes to get its first unmanned probes into space by the end of 2013.
The discussions occur at a time when the EU is pursuing official probes into Samsung and Google's Motorola unit to assess whether the two businesses have abused some of their patents in order to "distort competition".
Clinton and Gore have both described these outcries as lacking merit, with Gore going so far as to call for Federal Trade Commission probes into the large oil companies responsible for distributing the highly priced gasoline.
It involves inserting tiny ultrasound probes directly into the arteries that feed the heart.
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Other researchers, though, are experimenting with safe ways to inject microscopic probes deep into a living brain to study neural circuits.
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Another of Mr Jarquin's probes, into last year's sale of the biggest state bank, was recently ruled out of order by the Supreme Court because he did not present his report within 15 days of the deal, as the law supposedly requires.
Nasa has released information about the impacts made when two probes were deliberately crashed into the lunar surface last year.
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But their journey will come to an end this Monday, Dec. 17th when the two probes will be deliberately crashed into the surface of the Moon.
In 1977, two unmanned scientific probes were launched from planet Earth into outer space.
The IRS is facing congressional probes and a Justice Department criminal investigation into revelations that from early 2010 through early 2012 it gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups applying for nonprofit status.
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What is clear on the police front is that law-enforcement, too, is headed toward scrutiny, even as it carries out two probes tied to News of the World: one into phone hacking, the other into police payments.
The minister said there were ongoing police investigations into NIHE as well as a number of internal probes including one by the ombudsman.
Cuomo has opened a number of investigations into Wall Street, including the auction-rate probes, which continue, as well as activities in the credit default swap market and other signs of alleged fraud.
Democrats, emboldened, have called for deeper probes (last month, Republicans headed off an additional investigation into WMD-related contacts between the vice-president's office and the CIA, and another into whether America co-operated sufficiently with United Nations weapons inspectors before the war).
Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party, said Mr. Murdoch had "no option but to go" after "shocking evidence" of alleged bribery by the Sun, revealed this week at a public inquiry into media ethics by the police officer running the three criminal probes.
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