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Before the meeting of the Moscow City Court, she petitioned the closure process due to the inability to refer to evidence of innocence Khodorkovsky because of the quarterback subscription to disclose information from the preliminary investigation.
The judge refused Byhanovoy not found to meet her requests legal basis.
Prosecutor, demanding to uphold the decision to arrest Khodorkovsky, referring to the testimony of witnesses implicating him in the killings of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov and businessman Evgeny Rybin in 1999. In addition, the prosecutor recalled that in 2007 the court convicted on the case of former Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Customer murder court named former Yukos co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, who at that time had moved to Israel. All of them could not go on without the consent of the crime who headed Yukos Khodorkovsky, the prosecutor insisted. He also said that Khodorkovsky had been summoned to the Investigative Committee for the charges, but on the agenda was not, and his father, Boris Khodorkovsky, to testify about the whereabouts of his son refused.
As a good cause absenteeism Khodorkovsky to the investigator lawyer, businessman pointed distrust law enforcement authorities of the Russian Federation. The lawyer stressed that he fully supported the statement Khodorkovsky of his innocence and fears of unjustified prosecution of another.
Earlier, Khodorkovsky was convicted in absentia under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (organization of murder and attempted murder of two or more persons) . According to investigators, Khodorkovsky, being a shareholder and chairman of Yukos in 1998-1999 ordered the murder of his subordinates – Leonid Nevzlin and Alexey Pichugin and others.
«organize the killing Petukhov was decided in connection with the its legal requirements of the Nefteyugansk mayor to the Yukos oil company to return hidden from the state taxes. An attack on a businessman Evgeny Rybin was due to the initiated their claims against Yukos to recover the damage caused by illegal activities of the oil company “, – explained the position of the investigation a representative of the TFR Vladimir Markin.
The source of” Interfax “previously pointed out that after the absentee arrest wanted Khodorkovsky will be carried out in the CIS countries and in those countries with which Russia has signed an agreement vzaimovydache.
In this case, Khodorkovsky is in the UK, and between London and Moscow is no agreement on mutual extradition and the only tool for the extradition of wanted Russian citizens – the mechanism of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).
In the press center of the Interior Ministry has not yet commented on the wanted list of Khodorkovsky by Interpol.
Khodorkovsky himself has already stated that it is not It is going to take any action following the announcement it wanted. According to his press secretary Külli Pispanen, the disgraced businessman laughed when he heard about his arrest in absentia. Within the framework of the criminal case of the murder, he did not even hire a lawyer, she specified. Lawyer Byhanova from any comments on the case refused.
In the Kremlin, commenting on the new criminal case against Khodorkovsky, said earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking the decision to pardon a businessman, no data on its possible involvement other crimes.
Khodorkovsky himself declared that the agitation against him a new criminal case connected with the necessity of power to “change agenda».
The mayor of Nefteyugansk, Vladimir Petukhov was shot June 26, 1998, Khodorkovsky’s birthday.
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