Boris Titov, Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights and leader of Party of Growth, said that some businessmen who are hiding in the UK from Russian justice want to return to their homeland. According to Titov, the list of their names was forwarded to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, TASS reported.

Titov had previously stated that he intended to petition for exclusion from Interpol’s lists those Russian entrepreneurs whose guilt seemed unproven.

It’s not known who is on the list yet since it has not been finalized and appeals continue to arrive; more than a dozen so far. Titov said that their cases have much in common. All these people "managed to leave and did not end up in pre-trial detention centers." Criminal cases were opened against them, and then suspended, and the defendants were put on the wanted list.

"It can last for decades and some people live abroad for 20 years, unable to return because their cases are still open. There are no longer any claims against them. Even Interpol has already excluded them from the search list but in Moscow their cases are still open," he explained.

The reception centers for such appeals were opened in six countries, including in the UK. "We realized that this is a systemic problem, so people simply do not know how to address this, so they did not come to us, but we came to them," Titov said.

According to him, such a reception center is "not the office building, it's just a person who volunteers to start helping us [ Russian authorities].”

  Russia

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