Protecting Russians arrested in the United States will try to win her release – RBC

Protection of Russian Olga Pimanova, who is under house arrest in the US on charges of exporting her child out of the country, will try to through the court to achieve its liberation, told “Interfax” her lawyer Alexander Tolmatsky.

The defense will to insist on the release of Pimanova from house arrest. Lawyers want to achieve for her rights movement, said Tolmatsky. They will be asked to return her passport, which is now on the order of the court is in them. Protection would like to achieve, and permission to leave the United States, but at the current stage, “hope is not necessary,” said the lawyer.

The next step protection will be asked to reconsider the divorce process Pimanova, which resulted in her ex-husband was paternal rights. According to the defense, he got them “absolutely unjustified”, and a divorce was flawed, “not only with local laws, but even international conventions».

Pimanova was arrested on May 20. As according to US law enforcement agencies, it is exported from the United States a child without notifying her husband. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the woman returned to the US to take the exams at the university. Initially Pimanova was in jail, but was subsequently transferred to house arrest. She now lives with a friend.

As explained Tolmatsky, Pimanova is not involved in the case. “It is within the framework of civil proceedings, an order for her arrest was issued by a civil court on the fact of its defiance of the court order. A court order was the case on the basis of the divorce decision, in which [former husband Russians] Jorge was recognized as the father of four children, who was born outside of marriage, that is, outside of the presumption of paternity “, – he said

In. worst Pimanova could return to jail and stay there until you arrive to the country of her child, Tolmatsky said. However, the defense is not going to be transported, he said. The Court “has no right to dispose of third parties who are not parties to the judicial process” and Pimanova not be able to bring the child to the United States, while under arrest, stressed Tolmatsky. Himself a child to make a trip to such a distance could not have noticed the lawyer.

The Ombudsman for Children Pavel Astakhov, previously called the arrest Pimanova unfounded, noting that her daughter has Russian citizenship, and recalling that two years ago she was taken out of the country without any restrictions. In turn, the Russian Embassy in connection with the arrest prepared a note to the US State Department. At the same time the US government has not yet reported to the Embassy circumstances Paminovoy detention, said “Interfax” in the diplomatic mission.