RUSSIA
Interfax
St. Petersburg, January 15, Interfax – Priest Gleb Grozovsky said he intended to return to Russia only after all charges of sexually abusing minors were lifted from him.
“I will return as soon as my arrest in absentia is lifted, my status as a defendant is dropped and my safe return as a Russian citizen with all constitutional rights is guaranteed,” Grozovsky said in an interview with the Orthodoxy and the World Internet portal.
“My Israeli lawyer is sending a request to the Investigative Committee on the prospects for lifting the restrictions and the status of a defendant from me and asking that it guarantee my safe return to Russia in order to cooperate with investigators and return my right for the presumption of innocence,” the priest was quoted as saying.
At the same time, Grozovsky said that despite his decision not to return to Russia until the charges were dropped, he did not hide from investigators.
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