British authorities grant asylum to Bank of Moscow ex-chief Andrei Borodin

MOSCOW, March 1 (Itar-Tass) – Andrei Borodin, the ex-chief of the Bank of Moscow, has been granted political asylum in Britain. Sergei Gavrilov, the head of the Russian State Duma Property Committee, said, commenting the incident, that it was not the first time that Britain was granting political asylum to persons who had committed economic crimes in Russia and were on the police wanted list.

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