Russian businessman German Sterligov who has settled in Nagorno-Karabakh denies the reports he was a leader of BORN, a Russian nationalist gang.

The reports started appearing five years ago and were spread by people who had been already convicted, he said during a media conference in Shushi on Monday.

“They suddenly remembered me, but I even do not know them personally. The meaning of BORN I learned a week ago from my son. I used to think it was a name of a movie hero. It appears that the Russian nationalists are called this way,” he said.

German Sterligov has moved to Karabakh together with his family and plans to stay in NKR.