Thursday, January 28, 2010

UK Grants Asylum to Russian Businessman

A UK court granted political asylum to Nikolay Glushkov, formerly deputy CEO of Russian airline Aeroflot, convicted in Russia for embezzlement. The UK court found that the prosecution of Glushkov was politically motivated and intended to put pressure on Glushkov’s business partner Boris Berezovsky, another fugitive Russian businessman residing in London.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1311484&NodesID=6

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