Banker Andrei Borodin granted asylum in Britain after fleeing Vladimir Putin's Russia

Andrei Borodin, 45, told The Daily Telegraph that Britain had given him refuge after he submitted evidence showing how he was targeted for a politically motivated prosecution by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president who is now Russia’s prime minister. The Kremlin denounced the Home Office’s decision, accusing Britain of interfering in an “ordinary criminal” matter and declaring the asylum application a “simple ruse”. Mr Borodin fled to London in 2011 and, soon afterwards, bought Britain’s most expensive home, the £140 million Park Place Estate near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. He was previously chief executive and co-owner of the Bank of Moscow. Mr Borodin is wanted in Russia for alleged fraud and was made the subject of an Interpol “red notice” last summer. He was close to Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow who was ousted three years ago, and to the politician’s wife, Yelena Baturina, a billionaire property magnate. Mr Borodin is accused of enabling a loan of £270million from his bank – then partly controlled by the Moscow city government – to a company that used the money to buy land from Ms Baturina at an inflated price.

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Captain Of Passenger Boat In Bayelsa Murdered By Pirates

Sun Ebi, captain of a boat travelling the Yenagoa to Brass route, was murdered in an attack by armed men suspected to be sea pirates, Bayelsa eyewitness reported Sahara Reporters. Reacting to the attack, the chairman of Brass chapter of the Maritime Workers' Union, Mr Magnus Angel, called the attack that led to the death of the boat captain as "shocking." He said the passenger boat was attacked alast Tuesday at about 6 p.m. “The boat was travelling from Yenagoa to Brass when the armed pirates attacked it. ``And in the confusion that ensued, passengers jumped into the water, while the pirates ransacked their belongings. "After the pirates left, the passengers resurfaced to continue their trip when they discovered that the captain was missing," Angel stated. Boat union members and others entered the river to search for the body. Barely a day after the incident, another group of sea pirates attacked another boat along the Ogbolomabiri area of Nembe waterways but no casualty was recorded. Angel called on the state government to save the indigenes of the coastal communities of the state from the frequent sea pirates' attack. Bayelsa Police spokesman, Mr Fidelis Odunna, collaborated the eye witness account adding that the captain's corpse was found floating on the river few days after the incident. "Bayelsa government should take proactive ways of ensuring the safety of lives our people who ply the waterways of the state on daily basis”, said the union leader. Odunna said that the command had taken delivery of over 40 gun boats procured by the state government to assist in a proposed campaign against sea piracy in the state