Andrey Fridrikhovich Borodin (; born Moscow, 24 May 1967) is a Russian financial expert, economist and businessman who until 2011 was President of Bank of Moscow. He and his first deputy Dmitri Akulinin were dismissed from office by the court for the period of the investigation due to the Premier Estate criminal case, charged with abuse of authority. In April 2011, the meeting of the bank's shareholders dismissed them. Since April 2011, Borodin has lived in London, England, and since November 2011 until May 2016 has been on an Interpol Red Notice, wanted as a suspect in a 13-billion-rouble fraud committed in Bank of Moscow under his governance. In August 2012 he bought Park Place, a house near Henley-on-Thames. He was granted political asylum in the UK in February 2013. Education and early career Borodin serviced in the KGB Border Troops from 1985–87. Following his service, he enrolled at the Moscow Finance Institute. From 1989 to 1990 while at the Moscow Finance Institute, he studied economics as a visiting student at the University of Passau, Germany, and then returned to Moscow and graduated with a degree in International Economics and Finance from the International Economics Department at the Moscow Finance Institute in 1991. For two years, he worked for Dresdner Bank in Germany - which has deep ties to former members of the KGB and Stasi services - on an 18-month training course in Dortmund, then moved to Frankfurt and worked at the bank’s head office in the Financial Institutions Department. He left Dresdner Bank in late 1993, moved to Moscow, and in March 1994, was introduced to the Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov by Lev Alaluev (), and started working for the Government of Moscow as an economics and finance adviser to the Luzhkov. His relationships with Luzhkov, currently persona non grata in Russia since his dismissal by then-president Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, have been important for both his rise and current problems. Bank of Moscow What became one of the biggest players in Russian banking began as a six-person operation founded in 1995 by the Moscow City Government, which originally held a 51% stake. Under the political patronage of Luzhkov and the leadership of Borodin it weathered the crisis of 1998 and subsequently grew rapidly from a local bank largely serving the City Government to a national bank with a greatly enlarged client base and offering a broad