| Summary: | September 11, 1998 World 1 Russian companies Keiko being prepared controlled by criminals f m o y e t 09/04/98 MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of Russian companies that account for about 40 percent of the country's gross national product are controlled by criminal groups, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday. Vladimir Putin also told the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, that the FSB is investigating about 2,500 officials suspected of cor-ruption. Former soldiers are particularly vulnerable to being drawn into criminal activities, Putin said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. Although it has frequently announced anti-corruption cam-paigns in the past, Russian gov-ernment has been unable to stem the tide of crime in the economy. Russia's Interior Ministry acknowledged Friday that strengthened ties between crimi-nals and authorities helped drive up Russia's overall crime rate by 4 percent in the first half of 1998 from the same period last year, the Interfax news agency reported. Kidnappings were up by a third and theft also rose. Much of the growth resulted from tensions in Russia's Caucasus region, an area plagued by ethnic, religious, and territorial violence. Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin said, according to Interfax. Corruption also has contributed to the country's present economic crisis, and another crime wave was likely to follow the present disorder, Stepashin said. "Criminal actions led to the cri-sis of non-payments in the coal industry," Interfax quoted him as saying. "The same applies to the fuel and energy complex." Crime and corruption is often cited by foreign investors as one reason they are reluctant to invest in Russia. 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"I would give anything to get in the tank and pet him.'1 Wanda Richards, who watched with binoculars from her home across Yaquina Bay as Keiko cavorted in his tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, put it this way: "He feels like family." - Declared fit after 2 1/2 years of rehabilitation, the 10,000-pound (4,500-kilogram) orca whale star of the "Free Willy" movies is get-ting a chance at freedom. On the big screen, Willy jumps a harbor breakwater and swims to freedom with the help of an ancient Haida Indian prayer and a boy named Jesse in the first "Free Willy" film. rehabilitation. Keiko's real trip home will be Trainers expect to spend two much more complicated. summers evaluating whether Keiko was to be lifted by crane Keiko can make the transition to Wednesday afternoon and placed open sea living. If he can't, he'll in a specially made water-filled live out his days in the 250-foot-box and trucked to the airport by long (75-meter-long), 100-foot- United Parcel Service. The fiber- wide (30-meter-wide) sea pen. glass box, which measures 28 feet To prepare Keiko for the flight, (8.4 meters) long, 8 feet (2.4 trainers reduced his daily fish meters) wide and 9 feet (2.7 feet) intake from 145 to 30 pounds high, has a steel framework and is (43.5 to 13.5 kilograms), big enough to hold the 21-foot Keiko's hunger was meant to ( 6 . 3 - m e t e r ) Keiko. Then, an Air Force C-17 Globem as t e r cargo plane was to fly Keiko to the Westman Islands off Iceland, where a floating sea pen Jill from Florida "Yo Keiko . I'm sure you'll see your family soon/' ensure he would obey the hand signal to swim into his medical pool and be fitted into a nylon sling designed to hoist him into his trans-will be his halfway house. port box. . Keiko was captured in 1979 off Many children who have fallen Iceland and has spent the past 19 in love with Keiko chose to tell years in concrete tanks. 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