MOSCOW, August 22 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Savyolovsky District Court has dismissed a defamation suit filed by fugitive real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky against the state-owned radio station Vesti FM and prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov, RAPSI reported Friday from the courtroom.

Polonsky filed a lwasuit seeking 200 million rubles ($5.5 million) in damages for allegedly false claims made about him in Solovyov's "Full Contact" radio show which is broadcasted by Vesti FM. Solovyov called Polonsky a "schizoid citizen" and a "clown"  and said that he should be arrested.

Polonsky demanded refutation, removal of the text and audio recording of the show from the radio station’s website.

The show was broadcasted amid problems with Polonsky's Mirax Group company and Moscow housing development projects.

In June 2013, Russia’s Interior Ministry announced that Polonsky was charged in absentia and placed on the international wanted list for the alleged embezzlement of billions of rubles from shareholders of Kutuzovskaya Milya and Rublyovskaya Riviera projects.

In November 2013, he was arrested in Cambodia at Russia’s request, only to be released in January 2014.

On January 13, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow seized the stock of foreign companies owned by Polonsky, who has assessed them at $100 million. The ruling came as an injunction in the embezzlement case.