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Polonsky remains under arrest in a prison in Cambodia
A court in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville extended the arrest of Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky for an indefinite period, Russian Consul in Cambodia Pavel Seskanov told Interfax on Saturday.
“According to the law, you can arrest a person in Cambodia for 48 hours, then the arrest can be extended at the request of the prosecutor. The arrest has already been extended indefinitely - it could be 48 hours, it could be 3 months, or six months,” Seskanov noted.
He said that an earlier report that the businessman was released from prison on his own recognizance was untrue. “Polonsky and two other Russians are still under arrest,” the consul said.
On Friday it became known that in Cambodia, police detained Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky and two other people - Karachinsky and Baglay - on suspicion of attacking local sailors during a boat trip. The injured Cambodians told police that the holidaymakers locked them in their cabin at knifepoint and then forced them to jump overboard.
Later, a message was circulated that Polonsky was released on his own recognizance. The Potok company, headed by Polonsky, reported its version of events: a businessman, who was celebrating the New Year on one of the islands, had a mutual misunderstanding with the Cambodian military, who arrived on the ship to check the vacationers’ documents. Polonsky suggested that the military take him to the island where he lives to provide documents, but the soldiers “rudely refused and forcibly took him to a military base to find out his identity.”