Media reported about the plans of Interpol to re-examine the issue of Khodorkovsky – RBC

the Former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Interpol will review the request to declare the international wanted list the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, informs the Agency “Interfax” citing a source familiar with the situation

Interpol at its forthcoming meeting in mid-November, intends to consider the announcement in the international search Khodorkovsky on charges of involvement in the murder of Nefteyugansk mayor Vladimir Petukhov, said the Agency interlocutor.

“Interpol has received from Moscow all requested materials in this case in order to determine whether there are grounds for declaring the ex-head of Yukos in the international wanted list,” — said the source.

that Russia has sent to Interpol documents on Khodorkovsky, it became known in mid-may. Then the official representative of the Prosecutor General Andrey Kurennoy said that the Prosecutor General’s office sent to Lyon only part of the documents.

April 25, informed the Agency “Interfax” reported on the possible revision of Interpol’s refusal to declare the ex-head of Yukos in the international search. The source said that the international organization allegedly requested additional materials on the case of murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk, in which Russia declared Khodorkovsky wanted.

Russia’s Request to Interpol for the announcement of Khodorkovsky wanted was rejected in February this year. The Secretariat-General then came to the conclusion that the request does not comply with the rules of the organization, and recommended to the member countries of the organization not to make the ex-head of YUKOS in the national database on wanted. In the headquarters of Interpol appealed to article 3 of the Charter of the organization, which “prohibits to take any actions of political, military, religious or racial character”.

As pointed out earlier, the representative of Kyle Piispanen Khodorkovsky, the former head of the oil company live in the UK, with which Russia has no agreement on mutual extradition. Interpol is the only mechanism through which Moscow can pursue its issuance.

the Mayor of Nefteyugansk, Vladimir Petukhov, was shot dead on 26 June 1998. In 2007 convicted of murder was recognized as the head of Department of internal economic security of Yukos Aleksei Pichugin, who is serving a life sentence.