- Title: RUSSIA: SCANDAL-TAINTED EX-KREMLIN AIDE PAVEL BORODIN RETURNS TO RUSSIA
- Date: 13th April 2000
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (APRIL 13, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV INTERIOR OF MOSCOW SHEREMETOVO AIRPORT 0.07 2. SV/MCU VODKA AD / POLICEMAN LOOKING UP AT VIP ARRIVAL SECTION (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. LV PAVEL BORODIN WALKS DOWN STAIRS/PAVEL BORODIN SAYING: "I am a Russian citizen." 0.49 4. LV MEN CARRYING BORODIN'S SUITCASES AND FLOWERS GIVEN TO HIM 0.53 5. MCU (Russian) BORODIN: "As a citizen of Russian, I want to say that I am extremely grateful to the President of Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, for his assistance and his decency and reliability, that he--our president and citizen of Russia--is a real man. Secondly, I want to say as a government secretary of our Union of States my thanks to [Belarus President] Lukashenko. Thirdly, as a deeply religious person, I want to thank [Russian Patriarch] Alexiy II who supported me, sent me letters and an icon. I want to thank the governments of Russia and Belarus, the parliaments of Belarus and Russia, all those who supported me. I assure you, and I say this once again from my heart, I am a worthy citizen of Russia with a large family and I will do everything to make sure that all is right in Russia. I am ready for work. Thank you." 1.51 6. SV POLICE /SLV BORODIN SUPPORTERS WITH SIGN "RUSSIA IS WAITING FOR BORODIN" (2 SHOTS) 1.57 7. MCU BORODIN SUPPORTERS CONGRATULATING ONE ANOTHER OUTSIDE OF AIRPORT 2.07 8. SLV BORODIN MOTORCADE DRIVES AWAY 2.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: Scandal-tainted ex-Kremlin aide Pavel Borodin staged an
emotional return to Russia one day after his government
posted nearly 3 million United States dollars bail in a Swiss
court where he faces charges of money-laundering.
The 54-year-old confident to former President Boris
Yeltsin and secretary of a nebulous Belarus-Russian Union had
been held in the United States on a Swiss arrest warrant and
was then flown to a Switzerland jail for hearings.
A Geneva tribunal allowed Borodin to fly home on a five
million Swiss franc ($2.9 million) bail, providing he make
himself available for further hearings.
As he wife looked on with tears in her eyes, Borodin
thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarus PResident
Alexander Lukashenko and Russian Orthodox church Patriarch
Aleexiy II for their support during his prison ordeal.
Borodin gave Putin his start in the Kremlin in 1996 as a
property empire deputy, but the Russian leader has maintained
a deafening silence throughout Borodin's imprisonment.
Borodin faces charges of laundering $25 million in
kickbacks from Kremlin renovation contracts, a crime that
carries a maximum three-year jail term.
As Kremlin property chief, Borodin was the Russian elite's
patron saint of freebies. He decided who received luxury
flats, limousines, country dachas, expenses-paid holidays and
even new suits.
Borodin claims he is innocent. Russia dropped its own
inquiry into Borodin last year.
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