RIGA, Latvia, March 24 (UPI) -- Latvian police said they wonder if the disappearance of the media mogul Leonid Rozhetskin is a clever ploy or murder mystery, The Times of London said.
Rozhetskin disappeared March 16. A cab driver said he picked up two men from Rozhetskin's Latvian mansion and drove them to a popular gay club early that morning. Investigators said the cab driver noted someone was home at the time and police later found signs of violence, including bloodstains, when looking into Rozhetskin's disappearance.
Rozhetskin's plane allegedly left Latvia Sunday for Zurich with no passengers, the newspaper said.
Rozhetskin, who founded the British financial newspaper City AM, often said he had many famous friends but many dangerous enemies as well.
Russia prosecutors issued a warrant for Rozhetskin in 2006 in a $40 million fraud case involving the Russian telecommunications company Ipoc and he allegedly owed $25 million for past business ventures.
Latvian police are looking into three theories in his disappearance: abduction, domestic violence or a faked disappearance, The Times said.
"If there's no body, then there's no factual proof of (death)," Mareks Seglins, the Latvian interior minister, told The Times.
