Prosecutors Admit Envoy Poached

Law enforcement agencies publicly admitted for the first time that the late presidential envoy to the State Duma who died in a helicopter crash in the Altai mountains in 2009 was poaching endangered species during the trip. Alexander Kosopkin ordered his subordinates to hire the helicopter for the trip and “himself took part in the illegal hunt,” a prosecutor told an Altai district court Wednesday, RIA-Novosti reported. The helicopter […]