I guess he could be, but Interpol themselves seems to disagree with that since they canceled the request after looking into it deeper:

> After Pestrikov had spent almost two years on the wanted list, the CCF ruled that his case was predominantly political. He showed us CCF documents that said the information Russia had provided was "generic and formulaic" and there had been an "inadequate explanation" of the alleged crime. Interpol cancelled the request for Pestrikov's detention.

>Not denying that Russia abuses Interpol

The Bill Browder case was clear abuse. In case anyone is looking for a single precedent of this.

By he you mean Igor Pestrikov?

And yet despite his alleged criminal activities Russian prosecutors have failed to present an evidence-backed case that would warrant the notice to Interpol. That is why it was cleared.

To be fair, regardless of the details, every case in Russia is a political case. It’s the way the judiciary works there.

The point here isn't whether this guy clean or not. The point is that you can't trust allegations made by Russia. Any allegations made by Russia are what is called "fruit of the poisoned tree".

And just for example, Navalny was put in prison for alleged and proven in a so called "Russian court of law" financial/commercial crimes.

>He was perfectly fine living in Putin's Russia until 2022

That suggests that Russia was for 20+ years fine with whatever financial crimes this guy had been committing as long as he played ball (and like many there continue to commit while staying loyal to the regime), and is really using these crimes to get him now for political motives. (and, yes, looking at current Russian opposition you can find a bunch of guys who is rich and most probably made their money in Russia not in completely legal way, and i honestly don't have respect for them, yet it is clear that the regime is going after them purely for their opposition)

>and prosecutors also found that the privatization in the 90s was illegal

there has been whole wave of such findings recently (and Supreme Court specifically removed statute of limitations here). As result the privatization is usually nullified, the property gets confiscated by the government, and later it ends up in the hands of Putin's friends, family, loyalists. It is a huge redistribution of assets under the guise of "Russian law"

Yeah, the UK has a habit of giving a new home to Russian oligarchs.

There are several in my area of London who live in opulent mansions (one looks very Trump-like) bought with soviet privatization wealth.

Some of their houses: https://www.mylondon.news/news/property/london-mansions-owne...

I suppose our own politicians are so corrupt they see nothing wrong with such behavior and automatically consider such case as abusive.

[citation needed]

If high profile enough they may find some excuse to arrest a US or EU citizen then “exchange” them.

This is one way. But one more popular is to force anyone doing serious business to do things that are formally against the law, but you can't function without them (like payments to some officers). In this way you make sure everyone is controlled and you can threaten them easily, no need to invent everything as it's already organized. And if they don't comply, the case is practically ready.

> The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

Wait a sec, isn't the Austrian intelligence officer to blame here for doing the spying on Russia's behalf?

And Austrian politics in general have historically been very pro-Russia since the cold war, with Putin visiting the wedding of Austrian officials, and Austrian politicians getting jobs at Russian oil and gas companies after the end of their mandates. Also, Austrian Raiffeisen bank still has operations in Russia.

So maybe Austria could have some introspection and drain the swamp of Russian assets instead of throwing all the blame on Russia as it has no agency in its internal politics and business tie with Russia.

Do we believe some countries' spy agencies are scrupulous?

In which language is "ruzzians" a valid spelling?

You can pay $500 online in cryptocurrency to find out if there are interpol notices regarding a person. It's a convenient feature of interpol being so... international.

Such services are frequently advertised on forums like rutor

Are you referring to the woman that was convicted for hacking and 'illegal coercion through the use of a firearm'? Or someone else? https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/08/29/italy-keeps-zambe...