The correspondence verdict Berezovsky was upheld

The Moscow City Court upheld the absent -minded sentence against businessman Boris Berezovsky in the case of theft of Aeroflot cash. According to RIA Novosti, the judicial board rejected the lawyer's cassation appeal.

The court announced only the resolution of the decision, so the decision -making motives are not yet known.

Berezovsky’s lawyer asked the Moscow City Court to cancel the conviction, because, according to the defender, "there is nothing illegal in Berezovsky’s actions." In turn, the prosecutor asked to leave the sentence in force.

The Savelovsky court of Moscow on November 29, 2007 sentenced Berezovsky in absentia, living in the UK, to six years in prison in the case of the embezzlement of more than 214 million rubles of Aeroflot. Berezovsky was found guilty of fraud (part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court also satisfied the Aeroflot claim for recovery from Berezovsky and three more previously convicted people's money stolen from the company.

The court found that Berezovsky, together with the former General Director of Aeroflot, Nikolai Glushkov, former chief accountant of the company Lydia Kryzhevskaya and the head of the financial united corporation, Roman Sheinin, made fraud. The verdict states that Berezovsky fraudulently, using his authority of a famous entrepreneur, forced Aeroflot to transfer funds to the Swiss company Andava, the largest shareholder of which he was.

The prosecutor's office believes that this sentence may be another reason for applying to the UK of the extradition of Berezovsky.

The businessman received the status of a political refugee in the UK. The Russian authorities have repeatedly sent a request about his extradition.

In addition to the Aeroflot case, a few more cases will start against Berezovsky, including under the article “Forcible seizure of power”. It was aroused in connection with a statement on financing a coup in Russia, published in the British Guardian.