Leonid Rozhetskin
This Jewish lawyer was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union and emigrated with his mother to US when he was fourteen. He was a brilliant student who received a scholarship to the Columbia University from where he graduated with distinction. He returned to Russia at the age of 26, as a lawyer and the owner of a law firm. The owner of assets that can be estimated as “several hundred million dollars”, suddenly went missing under suspicious circumstances after disappearing from his villa in Jūrmala, Latvia on March 16, 2008. He was last seen on the day of his disappearance at a club called XXL. There are various widely held views about his whereabouts. While the Russians press claim that he is in California under the Federal Witness Protection Program, a preliminary DNA test suggest that a body found in a forest near Jūrmala is that of Rozhetskin.
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