He claimed to be a refugee fleeing persecution in Iran; it now seems likely he fled after embezzling money.
Russia's powerful investigative committee accused Ashurkov and two other activists last summer of embezzling the campaign funds they gathered for Navalny.
Shortly beforehand, some 50 members of staff at the same bank were accused of embezzling over $85m.
After a tip-off from a bank, a senior member in the accounts division of an Eastern Cape department was arrested in 1996 for allegedly embezzling 1m rand.
Last year, too, the chairman of Hyundai Motor (and son of Hyundai's founder), the world's fifth-biggest carmaker, was convicted of embezzling $90m from his company.
The rebels' delegation will be led by Anton Balasingham, a veteran negotiator.In a crackdown on corruption in state-run companies, China executed a former Air China official for embezzling more than 26m yuan ($3m) between 1992 and 1995.Afghanistan reclaimed its title as the world's top opium producer.
The indictment charges some of those arrested with embezzling money from the coffers of the Teamsters and other unions' health and pension funds by underreporting the hours union members worked.The prosecution's case is based in large part on an informant, now under federal protection, who wore a wire for three years and recorded hundreds of hours of conversations.
As first head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, set up in 2003, he pursued politicians and civil servants who were embezzling the revenues of sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil producer.
Last month the former director of a social-security fund in Gansu province was sentenced to death for embezzling 28m yuan over a decade.Embezzlement is to blame for only a small fraction of the money emptied from individual accounts.
This is into claims that last year two senior pro-government senators had pressed an official to reveal how fellow senators had voted in a secret ballot to expel a colleague (also from the government block), who is accused of embezzling public money.
Judges and journalists are chastising him for so quickly going back on earlier promises of greater transparency in office.Spaniards were also reminded of less lethal, but still disgraceful, corruption in high places last month when a former yuppie role-model, Mario Conde, was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzling funds from the Banesto Bank, which he once ran.
