OREANDA-NEWS British financier and head of the investment company Hermitage Capital William Browder said that canadian politicians should initiate the process of exclusion of Russia from Interpol. According to the businessman, such a step is technically possible.

"There is a clause in the Interpol rules that allows to exclude countries that use the organization in their own interests. It's never been used. However, now the government of Canada has the opportunity to exclude Russia from Interpol as well as the international Olympic Committee did not let them to the winter games in Pyeongchang," Browder said on CBC radio.

In his opinion, Moscow is currently using Interpol to prosecute political opponents, which is prohibited by the Charter of the organization. As an example of the victim of such persecution, the investor cited himself.

On Thursday, Browder made a video call from London to members of the canadian Parliament. In particular, he claimed that by sending requests for his arrest to Interpol, Russia allegedly violates the Charter of the organization, as these requests, in his opinion, are politically motivated.

On November 19, it became known that the Russian Prosecutor General's office opened a criminal case against Browder on the fact of the creation of a criminal community, and also intends to declare it on the international wanted list.

The canadian foreign Ministry has not yet responded to a request to comment on this statement Browder.

In December 2017, the Tverskoy court of Moscow sentenced Browder in absentia to nine years in prison for intentional bankruptcy, the damage to the state from which amounted to more than 3.5 billion rubles. In June 2018, the Moscow city court upheld the sentence.

William Browder worked in Russia from 1995 to 2006. In addition, he is a former employer of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in jail "Sailor's Silence", and the initiator of the Magnitsky act in the United States.