armed police have raided a bank owned by russian tycoon and extended neighbors a national reserve corporation is one of the. london evening standard and independent newspapers or correspondent he was at the scene. india afternoon a group of. policemen walked into the building of the national reserve bank searching for some documents there's been no clarification from the authorities as to what these documents were and what this search was all about the only comment we managed to receive from a spokesperson of the interior ministry in moscow was that this search was conducted in accordance with a criminal investigation which was launched earlier but he did not clarify any details about what this investigation was about and what this search was for the national reserve bank belongs to a with very well known russian businessman alexandre libya the owner of several investment companies in russia as well as owning several media including the british newspapers the evening standard and independent so far there's been nothing illegitimate about his business and this is the first time that such searc

national reserve corporation is one of the key assets still for the london evening standard and independent newspapers and for more i'm joined live file correspondent. who is now at the bank's office in the central moscow how alexis so what's happening then. clarification on the reasons behind this. well now as we know the masked armed men left the building with some documents with them there's been no clarification so far as to what they were doing inside the national reserve bank building the bank which is owned by a russian well known businessman the looks on the libya now we know that a group of several dozen masked man went into the building several hours ago in the afternoon looking for some documents we managed to get in touch with the spokesperson of the interior ministry in moscow and he said that this search inside the national reserve bank office was conducted in accordance with a criminal investigation launched earlier but there's been no clarification whatsoever as to what that criminal investigation was all about i'd like to remind viewers that it's on the labor defense of ver

businessmen his national reserve corp is a financial industrial holding which includes more than one hundred companies that is also the president of national reserve bank which is a part of the corporation. and time to check the numbers now european stock markets are making gains in london the footsie is climbing moving one percent on the decks a stop point eight percent b.p. shares jumped about one percent even though the quarter profits fell by six to seven percent the company set aside new money to pay for the gulf of mexico oil spill. and in moscow the bosses a flag and even a traitor investors around the world awaiting the outcome will think us a special reserves to james said holding off on any big moves. and the world bank has lowered its outlook for russia's growth its revised his g.d.p. forecast to four point two percent from four and a half percent for this year and down to four and a half percent from two point eight percent for the coming here for those fears the slowing pace of the global recovery. well that's all we have time for now but you can get more store small website r.t. dot com slash business. the close up team has featured in the current creature claire russia fi