Football club owner held in Baltics fraud probe

The Russian owner of Portsmouth Football Club has been arrested in London in connection with a money laundering probe that has rocked Lithuania and Latvia, officials said today.

Vladimir Antonov, 36, and a Lithuanian partner, Raimondas Baranauskas, 53, were detained on an arrest warrant issued by investigators probing alleged fraud and money laundering at his banks in the Baltic states, said Lithuanian prosecutor Tomas Krusna.