In the opposition

Process. Issue 7

August 18, 2009 Daily Journal

Process: day 158-day 164th

The key event last week was the prosecution of the extension of the detention of the accused in custody. Having put forward the traditional and very absurd reasons for their petition - the possibility that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev can put pressure on witnesses or eliminate evidence - prosecutors talked about one of the significant reasons for the new business. Lakhtin said that the defendants allegedly managed to hide part of the assets belonging to them. Maybe the true owners of the infamous Baikalfinance group seemed that they did not stole enough? However, it is possible that prosecutors simply want to make the conditions for the detention of the accused as difficult as possible. Here is how Elena Lipzer, lawyer Platon Lebedeva, commented on the motion of the prosecutors in an interview with the “Daily Journal”: “In our opinion, there are accusations of extension of the term of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in custody of the request of the concept of concepts, because they are already in custody of the court verdict. When the prosecutors say that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev can somehow exert pressure on someone or affect some evidence or witnesses-this is just cynicism. Prosecutors understand that people serving a sentence in a colony cannot do anything like that. With the help of this extension of the period of detention, they can be kept in the investigative isolator, that is, in completely not the conditions that they were appointed by him by the court sentence - not in the colony of general regime, but in fact in prison. ”

Artist Alexander Kotlyarov

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