KIEV, May 6 ??“ Police in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic countries have been closing in on the organizer of the Elite Center construction scam that had rocked Kiev earlier this year, Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko said.

The alleged organizer of the scam, Oleksandr Volkonsky, and his associates collected about $100 million in cash for elite housing his companies had never intended to build, and fled Ukraine.