Supreme Court dismissed the appeal protect Leonid Nevzlin, a former major shareholder of the oil company Yukos. Thus, the entry into force of the verdict, in which a businessman was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for organizing murders and attempted murders.
Nevzlin lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov requested that the sentence against his client to cancel a deal to stop in connection with the innocence of the accused. Security said that court did not reflect the real progress of the meetings, and the court granted only 8 working days to examine 84 volumes of the criminal case. "All this has deprived me as a defender, but Nevzlin as a man to justice, to effectively defend themselves," - explained Kharitonov.
Prosecutor Alexander Kobliakov argued that the investigator has sent protect Nevzlin notification that the investigation completed and the materials needed to get acquainted. "But lawyers are not" - said the prosecutor. He said the defense failed, and said that in general, the verdict is legal and justified.
"The Supreme Court, like the rest of the Russian judicial system, is controlled by the Kremlin, so the outcome of another trial performance was predetermined." With this statement, as passes NEWSru Israel, sought the protection of Leonid Nevzlin.
How to explain themselves lawyers, they filed a complaint with the Supreme Court solely on procedural grounds. "We now, at long last, we have the right to appeal to this court - the European Court of Human Rights - and thus Kremlin show. Under the guise of" Nevzlin case "the public at every stage - whether it be a consequence, the trial before the Supreme Court Russia - presented false . That is why, unlike so-called "Russian ships", Gosprokuratura and the Supreme Court of Justice of Israel rejected all the accusations of Russian authorities. The courts of many countries, among them - the Supreme Court of Switzerland, unequivocally stated that it was a political harassment, "- says the comments will be made available to NEWSru Israel.
Remember, 1 August 2008 Moscow City Court sentenced Nevzlin to life imprisonment and ordered him to recover from more than 5.5 million rubles in compensation to victims. Himself a businessman based in Israel, said then that "in any normal court easily prove his innocence."
In January 2004, Nevzlin was declared by Russia in the international search, he was reportedly indicted in absentia of embezzlement of property worth over 3 billion rubles, as well as tax evasion in the amount of 26.7 million rubles as an individual in the period 1999-2000.
Russian Prosecutor General's Office also accuse Nevzlin of organizing an attempt on the former head of administration of the ZAO Rosprom Sergey Kolesova, the former head of public relations of the Moscow mayor's office Olga Kostinoy and one of the managers of Austrian oil company East Petroleum Handelsgez MBH Yevgeny Rybin.
According to the investigation, for the period 1998-2002. members of an organized group on the orders of Nevzlin were committed murder Director LLP "FF" Phoenix "Valentina Korneeva, head of administration of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov (while his guard was injured Vyacheslav Kokoshkin), as well as the driver Rybina Nikolai Fedotov. Earlier, for similar offenses for life was convicted former chief of the security of NK Yukos, Alexei Pichugin.
Leonid Nevzlin in June 2003, lives in Israel. In November 2003, he received citizenship. In May, an Israeli court refused to strip Nevzlin of Israeli citizenship and extradite him to Russia.
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