MOSCOW, March 11 (RIA Novosti) - The former co-owner
of top Russian cell phone retailer Euroset has been placed on
the international wanted list, the Russian Prosecutor General's
Office said on Wednesday.
Charges against Yevgeny Chichvarkin, who is currently in
Britain with his family, were brought as part of an earlier
kidnapping case against former Euroset vice president Boris
Levin and two other company officials.
"Today the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has sent
an instruction to Interpol on adding Yevgeny Chichvarkin to the
international wanted list," said Marina Gridneva, a spokeswoman
for the Russian prosecutors.
A court issued an arrest warrant for Chichvarkin in late
January. It was appealed against by the businessman's lawyers
as "illegal and without grounds" as no separate criminal case
against Chichvarkin had been opened. But the Moscow City Court
ruled the warrant legal.
The businessman is suspected of authorizing the 2003
abduction of Euroset's shipping agent, Andrei Vlaskin, who
allegedly stole large quantities of mobile phones from the
company and then sold them on through a retail outlet he had
set up for the purpose.
Chichvarkin's lawyers say he currently has no plans to
return to Russia.
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