MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) - Moscow's Savyolovsky court is to hear a criminal case opened against businessman Boris Berezovsky, who lives in self-imposed exile in London.

"The criminal case based on charges of stealing Aeroflot money, which was probed by the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, was forwarded to the Savyolovsky court in the absence of the suspect," Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova told Interfax on Friday.

A date for hearings into the case "will be set in compliance with the law," she said.

Claims of thefts at Aeroflot were investigated in Berezovsky's absence. Court hearings into the businessman's case will also proceed in absentia, which is allowed by the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure in exceptional cases.