MOSCOW, March 27 - RAPSI. Russian nationals Konstantin Baglay and Alexander Karachinsky, who were arrested together with businessman Sergei Polonsky in Cambodia in late December 2012 and released on bail by the Sihanoukville court in early March, have written on their Facebook accounts that they are hiding "on the border with Thailand."

They claim that they are keeping to the conditions set by those who released them, who also promised to release Polonsky.

Polonsky's Russian lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky said he cannot predict how this development may affect his client.

Sergei Polonsky, a real estate developer and once one of Russia's richest men, and his friends Konstantin Baglay and Alexander Karachinsky were arrested on December 30, 2012, for allegedly attacking the six-man crew of a boat which was ferrying them from a Cambodian island to the mainland. They allegedly threatened the crew with a knife and locked them in a cabin.

Earlier, Polonsky appealed to the State Duma to consider setting up a commission to investigate the legality of his imprisonment in Cambodia. Polonsky wrote in his appeal, which he posted on Facebook, that "the numerous attempts to secure my release using legal mechanisms have failed."