There is a Russian adage about it. Evidently this:
"Был бы человек, а статья найдется" (Byl by chelovyek, a statya naydyot sa.)
"Where there is a man, there is an article" (of law he's breaking that could be used to convict him).
"Был бы человек, а статья найдется" (Byl by chelovyek, a statya naydyot sa.)
"Where there is a man, there is an article" (of law he's breaking that could be used to convict him).
If I were to make a literal translation, it would require the word "find" used in a reflexive/passive tense something like "given a person, an article can be found".
I made the translation fit a proverbial pattern, similar "where there is smoke, there is fire".
Also note that "chelovyek", though not denoting a male, is still a masculine word! A chlovyek's pronouns are "he/him". The cognate of that word in other Slavic languages, likewise masculine.
There are also precedents, like the title of Alexandr Men's book Syn Chelovecheskiy being translated to English as Son of Man.