Boris Berezovsky, Russia’s most notorious political emigrant, died in the UK on Saturday, March 23, at the age of 67. He may have been the most high-profile... 28.03.2013, Sputnik International
Boris Berezovsky, Russia’s most notorious political emigrant, died in the UK on Saturday, March 23, at the age of 67. He may have been the most high-profile Russian to have had a run-in with the law at home and been granted political asylum in the UK, but he was far from the only one. RIA Novosti recalls the most famous Russians to have sought refuge in the UK after falling from grace in their native country.
Boris Berezovsky, Russia’s most notorious political emigrant, died in the UK on Saturday, March 23, at the age of 67.He may have been the most high-profile Russian tohave had a run-in with the law at home and been granted political asylum in the UK, but he was far from the only one.RIA Novosti recalls the most famous Russians to have sought refuge in the UK after falling from grace in their native country.
In June 2009, the Krasnogorsk Court in the Moscow Region sentenced Berezovsky, a former State Duma Deputy and former Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, to 13 years in prison in absentia on embezzlement charges. By that time, almost eight years had passed since a federal search warrant was issued for Berezovsky and since he requested political asylum in Britain, which he was granted in 2003.
The most recent self-exiled businessman to join their ranks is former Bank of Moscow CEO Andrei Borodin, who faces embezzlement charges in Russia. He was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom earlier this year. The troubles for Borodin began in December 2010, when the Main Investigation Directorate of the Moscow Police Department opened a criminal case against “unspecified individuals from among the bank's employees.” Borodin fled to Britain in April 2011.
In late July 2007, RussNeft CEO Mikhail Gutseriyev announced that the Russian state was exerting unprecedented pressure on him. Gutseriyev left Russia the same year, though he returned to Moscow in 2010 after charges against him of illegal entrepreneurship were dropped.
In 2009, a year after Yevroset founder Yevgeny Chichvarkin left Russia for London, investigators charged him with kidnapping and extortion. In the summer of 2009, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office requested Chichvarkin’s extradition from the UK. In 2011, the Russian Investigative Committee dismissed the case against Chichvarkin and the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court closed the extradition case. The entrepreneur remains in London.
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