Russian agencies clash over airport owner's case

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian law enforcement agencies clashed in court Friday in a case blaming the billionaire owner of the nation's biggest airport for alleged safety violations that officials say led to the deaths of 37 people in a suicide bombing five years ago.

The attack in the airport's international arrivals area also wounded 180 others and was claimed by Chechen rebels.

Kamenshchik's arrest has sent shock waves across Russia's business community, with many seeing it as yet another case of government-connected businessmen relying on law enforcement agencies to try to snap up Russia's most attractive economic assets.