Russian court calls for seizure of banker's British mansion
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A Russian court has called for the seizure of a fugitive banker's lavish British residence.
Russian news reports said Thursday that the court in Moscow on Wednesday ordered the seizure of Andrei Borodin's Park Place mansion in Henley-on-Thames. Some reports claim it's the most expensive residence in Britain outside London.
The residence was purchased for a reported 140 million pounds ($200 million) by Borodin, former head of the Bank of Moscow, who is wanted in Russia on charges of hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.
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Borodin, who claims the charges against him are politically motivated, said he received political asylum in 2013. It couldn't be immediately determined if Britain would honor the Moscow court order.