By RIA Novosti
Moscow : A city court here has upheld a lower court’s verdict sentencing tycoon Boris Berezovsky to six years in jail for embezzling more than $9 million from Russian flagship air carrier Aeroflot.
Lawyers for Berezovsky, who lives in Britain, had appealed the verdict handed down by Moscow’s Savyolovsky district court Nov 29, 2007, saying there was “no evidence of wrongdoing.”
Berezovsky has been granted political asylum in Britain. Russia has issued multiple arrest warrants on him and has repeatedly demanded that Britain extradite him.
The businessman is also accused of plotting to stage a coup in Russia, as well as embezzling $13 million from a leading Russian bank. These two cases were opened in the spring and summer of 2007, respectively.
Eleven criminal probes have so far been launched in Russia against Berezovsky, a one-time close associate of the late Russian president Boris Yeltsin.