MOSCOW, May 17. /TASS/. The Interior Ministry of Russia is carrying out the procedure of Sergey Polonsky’s deportation, the ministry’s website said on Sunday. "Mr.Polonsky is being deported to Russia by Russian Interior Ministry officers. He will be brought to trial in accordance with Russian law," the interior ministry’s spokeswoman Yelena Alexeyeva said.
The businessman was arrested on May 15 on his own yacht a few dozen kilometers off the coast of the city of Sihanoukville along with his five assistants. The Interpol issued a wanted notice for Polonsky at the request of Russia’s Interior Ministry. In Russia, the businessman is a defendant in the criminal cases of embezzlement of funds of interest holders in the construction of the Rublyovo Riviera and Kutuzov Mile residential complexes.
A district court in Moscow has charged him in absentia with fraud on an especially large scale carried out by an organized group. The Russian side earlier addressed an inquiry to Cambodia on the entrepreneur’s extradition, but the Cambodian court ruled that Polonsky could not be extradited to Russia, since a criminal case had been opened against him in the country on bodily blows to local citizens.
Last December, the Russian side against sent a request to the Cambodian authorities regarding Polonsky’s extradition.
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