SPANISH CITIZEN PUT ON SEARCH BY RUSSIA'S PROSECUTOR HAS BAD REPUTATION IN SPAIN








MADRID, March 4. /RIA Novosti's correspondent Juan Kobo/. Put for the second time on international search by the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on charge of bribery, swindling and theft, Spanish citizen Felipe Turover in known far beyond Spain for his machinations. 


	In the juridical circles of Spain Felipe Turover is called "a pathologic go-getter who unscrupulously and openly pursues his own selfish interest", reports the RIA Novosti correspondent. Sources say that Felipe Turover, who in 1983 arrived with his Spanish wife from the USSR in Madrid, promptly won bad repute there. Using his good looks and "high-society" manners, he won the confidence of the eccentric elderly Duchess of Medina Sidonia. For her leftist ideas she was called "the Red Duchess". Their "intimate friendship" ended when the well-known aristocrat accused her invariable companion of appropriating a big sum of money. 


	Then, Felipe Turover left Spain, where his parents with the child from the wife whom he divorced upon arrival in Madrid live, and went to Moscow, where he has been doing business since 1988. As a "connoisseur of the abroad" and foreign languages, in the early 1990s he began helping in financial transactions at a high interest. Then he worked for Switzerland's Banco de Gottardo, which sacked him in 1998 for unscrupulousness. 


	Living beyond his means, the die-hard machinator was chronically short of money and had no scruples engaging in petty swindling. Felipe Turover was "selling influence": for money he promised backing to persons in trouble and hinted to his "high contacts", for example with the ex-Russian prosecutor-general Yuri Skuratov.