BANGKOK, May 27 (RAPSI) - The hearing of Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky's case in Cambodia is unlikely to end before the general elections on July 28, one of Polonsky's attorneys told RIA Novosti by telephone from Sihanoukville on Monday.

"Everyone is busy with the upcoming elections and so it is unlikely anyone will try to bring about a faster verdict in Polonsky's case, because Polonsky has been released on bail and has pledged not to leave the country," the attorney said.

He believes that the verdict will be favorable and that Polonsky will get a conditional sentence, he said.

The attorney also added that the time period for hearing Polonsky's case would run out at the end of the summer and that Cambodian courts strictly comply with deadlines.

Polonsky, once one of Russia's wealthiest men, was detained together with two Russian friends, Konstantin Baglay and Alexander Karachinsky, on December 30, 2012, for attacking the six-person crew of a boat ferrying them from a Cambodian island to Sihanoukville.

The three Russians allegedly threatened the crew at knifepoint and locked them in a cabin. Baglay and Karachinsky were released on bail on March 11, 2013. On April 3, Polonsky was released from the Cambodian prison, but was forbidden from leaving the country.