MOSCOW, December 17 (Sputnik) — British authorities have decided not to return Russian state funds that were illegally siphoned abroad and not to extradite individuals charged of embezzlement, Russia's Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin said Wednesday.
Boris Berezovsky is one of the most famous Russian fugitive tycoons. Russian oligarch, facing charges of fraud and failing to repatriate foreign currency revenues, has been living in the United Kingdom since 2000 in self-imposed exile, until his death in March 2013.
Since 2008, Russian bailiffs have returned to creditors about $8 million of Berezovsky's debts. After his death, five court decisions obliged Berezovsky to pay 3.3 billion rubles ($89 million) to national airline Aeroflot and to the administration of Russia's Samara Region.
