Lawyer Viktor Parshutkin died

On Tuesday night, lawyer Viktor Parshutkin died suddenly. This was reported by the Federal Chamber of Lawyers. The cause of death is not specified.

Parshutkin was born in 1960. In the first education of a chemist; In 1985, he defended his thesis at Moscow State University. Later I received a legal education. In 1994-1996, he was a press secretary of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and assistant to the chairman of this committee Vladimir Lukin.

Law practice was engaged in 1998. In recent years, he headed the branch No. 28 of the Moscow Regional Bar Association.

In 2000, the Constitutional Court on the complaint of Parshutkin adopted a ruling in which he established the legal content of the concept of "lawyer secret" and forbade to interrogate lawyers for any circumstances that became known to them in connection with the provision of legal assistance, regardless of the form of this assistance, as well as the time and place of its provision.

Parshutkin was considered one of the best experts in the jury in Russia. He participated in the preparation of young lawyers to work in processes with the participation of jury.

In May 2008, two criminals beat Parshutkin with wooden sticks on the head. The lawyer connected the attack with the case of his client Manana Aslamazyan, ex-heads of the educated media fund. A few days earlier, the Constitutional Court, on the complaint of Parshutkin, recognized as an Alanmazyan as an article of the Criminal Code on the smuggling of the currency that does not comply with the basic law. In this regard, the Ashmazyan case was closed .

In April 2015, the lawyer took the defense of the Lugansk peasant Sergei Litvinov, who was arrested in Russia on charges of war crimes as a fighter of the Dnipro National Guard battalion. It was claimed that the peasant committed mass killings in the Stanicho-Lugansk region of the Luhansk region, the victims of which were 39 people. He was threatened with a life sentence.

In July 2015, after Parshutkin entered the case, Litvinov added an accusation of robbery. The lawyer explained his appearance by the fact that the case of war crimes was falling apart . In November of that year, these accusations from the peasant were really removed. In the case there was only an article about robbery - Litvinov was charged with the abduction of two cars.

The political prisoner and his lawyer, however, insisted on returning articles on war crimes and murder. This would allow them to achieve a process with the participation of jury. Nevertheless, the petition was rejected - the case was listened to the judge alone. In April 2016, Litvinov receivedeight and a half years of strict regime . A month ago, it became known that he was sent from the Rostov colony to Magadan .

Parshutkin also represented Litvinov’s interests in a civil case. The Politsyk filed a lawsuit of 3.3 million rubles to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee in connection with the unreasonable content of the pre -trial detention center on charges of war crimes, as well as in connection with the use of torture. However, in this lawsuit the peasant was awarded only 1000 rubles.

In June 2016, Parshutkin participated in the "All -Russian" Congress "information technology in advocacy" conducted in the annexed Yalta. Some lawyer colleagues criticized this act.