Polonsky arrested, to be deported

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prahkeitouj wrote:
MekongMouse wrote:
prahkeitouj wrote:Will he come back again ?
Not likely, he has to face trial in Russia and will probably be convicted.
For expired visa?
No, he doesn't need a visa for Russia. He's up for embezzlement there.
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prahkeitouj wrote:
MekongMouse wrote:
prahkeitouj wrote:Will he come back again ?
Not likely, he has to face trial in Russia and will probably be convicted.
For expired visa?
No, Russia has been trying to get him for a long time. He has no power there and will likely spend some time in prison over some business disputes. Nothing to do with Cambodia.
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So HE is visiting Russia real soon. I wonder how much money will change hands at that meeting. The deportation has nothing to do with HE's visit to Putinville. (and I'm the Pope of the North Pole.)
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Thanks, MM and JB.
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Following a failed attempt to free Polonsky, three of his associates were deported yesterday. Other people who were working for Polonsky will also be deported despite the fact that they have valid visas.
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Uk Heiseila, head of investigations and procedure at the General Department of Immigration, said Russian nationals Roma Kotenlikov and Aleksei Kunitcyn were arrested on May 16 after showing up at the department’s office in Phnom Penh in an attempt to “liberate” Polonsky.

“One of the men went inside our office and pretended to be Polonsky’s lawyer,” he said, adding that the second man stayed in their car with the engine running.

Authorities grew suspicious, he said, when the men stayed parked outside the building after the first man returned to the vehicle. The incident prompted the authorities to delay Polonsky’s deportation by one day, he added. Umar Acharkov, a Polonsky associate arrested alongside his employer on May 15, was also deported yesterday.

One Russian, two Ukrainians and one Latvian remain in Immigration Department detention pending deportation. Although all but the Russian national have valid visas, Heiseila said they would be cancelled for “security reasons”.
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Polonsky sent to mental facility

Wed, 3 June 2015
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Russian authorities yesterday sent former billionaire Sergei Polonsky to a psychiatric institution with a notorious Soviet past to determine whether the recently repatriated fugitive requires “compulsory” psychological care, the Russian government has announced.

“Today, Mr. Polonsky was sent to an outpatient psychological/psychiatric complex [for a] juridical examination of his sanity, as well as the presence of any affectations requiring compulsory medical treatment. This examination will be conducted by the Serbsky Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction,” said the announcement from Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Elena Alekseeva, which was posted on the ministry’s website.

The statement did not elaborate further.

The Serbsky – or Serbski – Centre was best known during the Soviet era as a holding pen for political dissidents, who were often branded insane by the state for their allegedly schizophrenic “reformist delusions”.

According to Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director at Human Rights Watch, it “has been infamous since Soviet times for its punitive psychiatry practices”. However, she added, that chapter “is history”. “On the other hand, Serbski Institute has the authority to conduct psychiatric assessment in criminal cases. So, there is nothing extraordinary that they got involved in Polonsky’s case,” she said.

Nonetheless, in recent years, news reports of activists being detained in Russian psychiatric facilities – such as Marina Trutko in 2006, and Mikhail Kosenko in 2012 – have raised questions of a return to Soviet-style politically motivated psychiatric treatment.

Polonsky spokesman Ilya Rosenfeld yesterday brushed off the legitimacy of the decision to imprison the former businessman, sardonically joking that the detention in Serbsky – which also deals with addiction – would at least “shut up all those who spread filth about his use of drugs and alcohol”.

Meanwhile, police in Preah Sihanouk province, where Polonsky eluded Russian embezzlement charges for years, searched the eccentric former real estate tycoon’s private island in order to catalogue his possessions, Deputy Provincial Governor Chhin Seng Nguon said.

“We arrived on the island and saw 25 bungalow houses, which were just newly built in late 2014. They were built illegally on Koh Damlong,” he said. “Bronze statues like Apsaras, for displaying in the bungalows, were also kept there. We only checked his property to record it and report it to high-level authorities.”

Naval patrols, he added, would make sure the property is safe.

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Today I met one of the navy high brass that was on the most recent army search trip to koh damlung and he showed me the pictures he had taken there.
Apart from the media described bungalows, locked safe and big collection of local artifacts (mostly copies from what I could see), he also had a stone sculptures garden in a forrest setting made of dozens cement big dicks. They didn't look one bit like lingas but like realistic erected male organs; wtf ? a tribute to the island's yiey Mao maybe ? :lol:
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But where is the yacht? Still beached? It would be a bit hard to miss you would think!
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Not long ago the the guy was hanging around yachts and tropical islands having fun, now he's in a freezing mental hospital not far from the arctic. Quite a turn of events.
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