Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the photo, calls on Britain’s authorities to strip Boris Berezovsky of the refugee status.
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RF Foreign Ministry Urges London to Strip Berezovsky of Refugee Status
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Britain’s authorities to strip Boris Berezovsky of the refugee status. Calls for violent change of the current power, the minister said, are enough to apply legal actions against Berezovsky, Echo Moskva reported.
London resident Boris Berezovsky abuses the status of political refugee by performing acts “that require his extradition under the Britain’s laws,” ITAR-TASS reported quoting Sergey Lavrov.
Earlier today, Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika ordered to initiate a criminal action against the exiled tycoon once the latter acknowledged plotting a new Russian revolution. According to Chaika, Berezovsky’s interview to The Guardian was “open calls for forcible overthrow of constitutional power.”
”We need to use force to change this regime,” the oligarch told The Guardian, specifying personal involvement in funding the coup. “There are practical steps which I am doing now, and mostly it is financial.”
Shadow fugitive billionaire, Boris Berezovsky, was granted the U.K. asylum in 2003. Jack Straw, then the chief of Britain’s Foreign Office, warned Berezovsky of potential loss of the refugee status, should he continue advocating violent actions to overthrow the power in Russia.
The Kremlin is seeking to extradite Berezovsky, but all requests have been always turned down by Britain’s courts, as the billionaire is protected by Geneva conventions. In Russia, the political elite doubts that Berezovsky used legitimate methods to get asylum in Britain.
Not long ago, the Vesti Nedeli Weekly Program of Russia’s TV Channel (RTR) showed a plot, where a man - certain Pyotr – took part. That Pyotr claimed he had data about fabricating an audio tape, where he had admitted involvement in arranging an attempt to assassinate Berezovsky. But exactly that tape helped the billionaire to get political asylum in Britain.
Alexander Litvinenko was killed because he had known about falsification and taken an active part in it, Pyotr asserted.
It was Vladimir Teplyuk that performed under the name of Pyotr in that program, according to Berezovsky. From time to time, Teplyuk announces that he was hired to kill the businessman but he has never been taken seriously by Britain’s police.
On April 5, Berezovsky addressed a letter to RTR, urging it to refute that information. His lawyer said the billionaire will go to London law against RTR-Planeta and Vesti April 19, if RTR comes up with no apology and refutation.
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