MOSCOW, August 30 - RAPSI. Moscow's Lyublinsky District Court has declared the actions committed by an election committee unlawful as presidency candidate Mikhail Prokhorov requested, the court spokesperson told the Russian Legal Information Agency.

The spokesperson added that Prokhorov challenged the election results based on the fact that non-residents were found in the lists of voters at Polling Station 1359.

She said Prokhorov had also pressed for the annulment of the elections, but the court rejected this part of claim.

The former candidate filed around 50 lawsuits in Moscow and Moscow Region contesting the results of the presidential elections. Most of them were dismissed, some are still being considered.

Prokhorov came in a distant third after Vladimir Putin and Gennady Zyuganov in the presidential elections held on March 4, 2012. Running as an independent, self-nominated candidate, Prokhorov entered the race with a fair amount of preexisting celebrity due to his status as a billionaire gold tycoon and owner of a U.S. basketball team, Brooklyn Nets.

The presidential elections came in the aftermath of the hotly contested December parliamentary elections, which were heavily criticized due to widespread reports of electoral fraud. As a result, the March elections were subject to domestic and international scrutiny. Election observers and journalists monitored polling stations and election commissions throughout the voting, counting, and tabulation processes. The March elections were also the first to feature webcams in all polling stations throughout Russia to increase voting transparency after the dissatisfaction with the parliamentary elections.