Mr Luzhkov was ousted as mayor after a public clash with Mr Medevdev in 2010, and Mr Borodin has claimed he was targeted because the Kremlin feared the bank might help Mr Luzhkov restart his political career.
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Russia Attempts To Seize Most Expensive House In Britain From Fugitive Banker With Model Wife
13 May 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Politics, Property, United Kingdom
Considered the most expensive house in Britain, a Russian court has now called for the seizure of Park Palace mansion in Henley-on-Thames, as it is owned by a fugitive banker.
Andrei Borodin reportedly purchased the lavish residence for £140 million, and is now wanted in Russia on charges of hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud as he stole from the very bank he owned.
Andrei has argued that the charges against him are politically motivated and has been in political asylum since 2013. The Telegraph reports:
He was targeted for a politically motivated prosecution by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president who is now Russia’s prime minister.
He was close to Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow who was ousted six years ago, and to the politician’s wife, Yelena Baturina, a billionaire property magnate.
Mr Borodin was accused of enabling a loan of £270million from his bank – then partly controlled by the Moscow city government – to a company that used the money to buy land from Ms Baturina at an inflated price.
Once Andrei was granted political asylum, he moved to the residence with his daughter and his wife.
He then did an interview with The Telegraph in which he said he had warned David Cameron of the Russian president:
“I would tell him things that most probably he knows without my advising,” said Mr Borodin, 46, softly-spoken, in heavily-accented English. “That he should not trust Mr Putin. He should not – how do you say in English? If you have a wolf, and you want to make the wolf your dog?”
To tame it? “Yes. You just want to make a wild animal your friend. Mr Cameron should not try to make Mr Putin his friend.”
Read the rest of the piece HERE for some interesting insight into the Russian “mafia”.
[source: bt&rapsi&andrey-borodin&telegraph]
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