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Interpol decides to revise advice to block international search for businessman Browder

William Browder was convicted in absentia in Russia to nine years for tax evasion amounting to 522 million rubles ($14.9 million)
William Browder (archive) AP Photo/Virginia Mayo
William Browder (archive)
© AP Photo/Virginia Mayo

MOSCOW, June 19. /ITAR-TASS/. The Interpol commission decided to revise its recommendation to block international search for businessman William Browder, spokesperson of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office Marina Gridneva told ITAR-TASS.

She recalled that the Prosecutor General’s Office had earlier produced a report at the Interpol head office in France’s Lyon over sound reasons for criminal prosecution of Browder who was convicted in absentia in Russia to nine years for tax evasion amounting to 522 million rubles ($14.9 million).

“The Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files decided at its 89th meeting in the French city of Lyon to revise the issue of international search for William Felix Browder through Interpol,” Gridneva said.

A final decision on this issue will be taken at a next meeting of the commission.