Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Vladimir Mau, recipient of the Order for Merits to the Fatherland 3rd Class, during the ceremony to present state awards in Moscow, Russia November 15, 2017. Sputnik/Aleksey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Leading Russian economist Vladimir Mau has been charged with fraud "on an especially large scale", the interior ministry said on Thursday, in a shock to Russia's academic and economic elite.
It said he was accused of embezzling funds from the institute where is rector, as part of a larger case involving another top academic and a former deputy education minister.
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