1.   Borodin flew to Switzerland last month to face charges, but the Swiss authorities freed him on bail, saying Russian prosecutors had not handed over crucial evidence.

2.   A Spanish high court had rejected a request by Russian prosecutors to extradite him to Moscow to face fraud charges.

3.   But Russian prosecutors are threatening to try him for carrying false documents and cooperating with Chechen militants, an allegation he has denied.

4.   Gusinsky, who calls the inquiry politically motivated, is under house arrest in Spain while Russian prosecutors seek to have him returned.

5.   Gusinsky and his conglomerate, Media-Most, have been fighting a hungry creditor and a hostile Russian prosecutor since the election of President Vladimir Putin last year.

6.   He is under heavy pressure from Swiss fraud investigators, who have now handed over half a ton of documents to Russian prosecutors.

7.   In Grozny, the capital, the authorities issued an arrest warrant for Avturkhanov on charges of treason and asked the acting Russian prosecutor to extradite him.

8.   Nevertheless, Sergei Prokopov, a spokesman for the Russian prosecutor, said Babitsky would be arrested if he did not show up for questioning.

9.   Russian prosecutors said they would ask other nations to arrest Gusinsky should he leave Spain.

10.   Russian prosecutors are investigating the episode, which has become an international embarrassment.