SWITZERLAND: FORMER KREMLIN AIDE PAVEL BORODIN ARRIVES AT GENEVA'S COURTHOUSE TO FACE QUESTIONING ON MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES

Record ID: 648392

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: FORMER KREMLIN AIDE PAVEL BORODIN ARRIVES AT GENEVA'S COURTHOUSE TO FACE QUESTIONING ON MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES
  • Date: 11th June 2001
  • Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (JUNE 11, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV: EXTERIOR OF COURTHOUSE IN GENEVA 0.03 2. SCU: SIGN READING "PALAIS DE JUSTICE" (COURTHOUSE) 0.08 3. SV/PAN: MEDIA/ PAVEL BORODIN ENTERING GENEVA'S COURTHOUSE (2 SHOTS) 0.19 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) ROBERT ASSAEL, ONE OF BORODIN'S LAWYERS SAYING: "Today is the continuation of the hearings. Everyone who was indicted will be asked to appear at the court, and the judge will continue his questioning." 0.33 5. SCU: CUTAWAY JOURNALISTS 0.35 6. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) ASSAEL SAYING: "Mr Borodin considers that he has done nothing wrong, so he does not have justify what he has not done. Therefore he will not answer to the questions. He will use his right to keep silent." 0.49 7. SV:LAWYERS ENTERING COURTHOUSE 0.53 8. MV: EXTERIOR OF COURTHOUSE 0.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th June 2001 13:00
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  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVA26BQ5QROFOFLJXH9X8KL6IU7B
  • Story Text: Former Kremlin aide Pavel Borodin has arrived at
    Geneva's courthouse to face questioning from Swiss
    authorities on money-laundering charges.


    Ex-Kremlin aide Pavel Borodin arrived at Geneva's
    courthouse on Monday (June 11) to face questioning by Swiss
    judge Daniel Devaud who recently indicted him on
    money-laundering charges.

    "Mr Borodin considers that he has done nothing wrong, so he
    does not have justify what he has not done. Therefore he will
    not answer to the questions. He will use his right to keep
    silent", said Robert Assael, one of Borodin's lawyers.

    Borodin, a confidant of former Russian President Boris
    Yeltsin and secretary of the nebulous union between Russia and
    Belarus, was indicted last April.

    Investigators suspect him of using Swiss and offshore
    banks to launder more than 25 million United States dollars in
    kickbacks on 500 million USD of Kremlin renovation contracts
    awarded to two Swiss-based construction firms, Mabetex and
    Mercata.

    He and the firms deny the charges, but Borodin's lawyers
    admitted in court that he had accounts in the city.

    Swiss judge Danial Devaud summoned Borodin and four other
    people indicted last year to appear at the hearing. The
    indicted are Behgjet Pacolli, the Kosovo-born chief executive
    of Mabetex, two Geneva asset managers and a Geneva lawyer.

    Russia paid five million Swiss francs (2.87 million USD)
    bail in cash for Borodin's release from a Geneva jail on April
    12. He flew home the next day, ending his week-long stay in
    the Swiss city and a total of three months in foreign jails.

    He was arrested in January in New York on a Swiss
    international warrant and extradited to Switzerland in April.

    Last year Russia dropped its own inquiry into Borodin.


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