6HD307213 PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE OF RUSSIA SEES NO BASIS FOR OPENING CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST PAVEL BORODIN








MOSCOW, March 7. /RIA Novosti correspondent/. The Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia has found no facts warranting the opening of a criminal case against Pavel Borodin, state secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union.


	In reply to an international investigation request from Switzerland, the Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia verified facts concerning Borodin's role in the renovation of the Kremlin palaces and the building of the Audit Chamber (Russia's chief financial watchdog) and also the refurbishing of the presidential plane. All these projects are known to have been financed by the Russian President's property department, which had been under Borodin until 1999. 


	Leonid Troshin, head of the information and public relations department of the Prosecutor-General's Office, said that the checks failed to reveal a "single irregularity in tender holding, or a single instance of inflating estimates or volumes of work, or any facts warranting the opening of a criminal case against Russia both under Russian laws /as well as under US laws/". 


	"In other words," -the spokesman of the prosecutor's office said, "there have not been revealed a single source of criminal proceeds, nor the crime money itself, of whose laundering the criminal investigator from the Geneva canton is accusing Borodin". 


	Borodin was arrested in January of this year by US law enforcement bodies at the request of the prosecutor's office of Switzerland.