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The Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized the decision to be legal on the transfer of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky from the colony to the investigation of the cheat to conduct investigative actions in a new criminal case, RIA Novosti reports.

Thus, the court refused to satisfy the complaints of the lawyer Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt. The day before, the lawyer himself decided to withdraw a complaint. Schmidt explained this by the fact that all the terms in which it should be considered has long passed.

On March 20, the Basmanny Court recognized the preliminary investigation in the new case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in Chita illegal. Then Schmidt expressed the hope that his client would be transferred to Moscow in the near future.

At the end of February, lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev Yuri Schmidt, Karinna Moskalenko and Robert Amsterdam made a statement that the Prosecutor General did not find evidence of the guilt of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, she simply announced the criminal all their activities. "These accusations are so ridiculous that no one can remain in doubt about the political nature of claims to our principals," the statement said.

According to the lawyers, the Prosecutor General's Office stated the labor biographies of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in the text of the prosecution, only replacing the words “management of the company” with “organized criminal group”, “transaction” with “theft”, “financial report” on “false documents”. “The accusations are simply not contained in this document,” the defense statement emphasizes.