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The verdict of Alexei Pichugin was canceled by the Supreme Court of Russia abolished the verdict to the former employee of the Oil Security Service of Yukos Alexei Pichugin. Its case will be returned to the Moscow City Court for new consideration due to excessive softness of the previous verdict - 24 years in a maximum security colony.

Alexey Pichugin has already listened twice accusations. In March 2005, he received 20 years in a maximum security colony for organizing the beating of the former head of the Rosprom CJSC Viktor Kolesov, an attempt to kill the former adviser to the mayor of Moscow and Mikhail Khodorkovsky Olga Kostin and for the murder of the Gorin spouses in 2002 in 2002. Two weeks after the announcement of the first sentence, Pichugin was brought by new, no less serious accusations: he was charged with the murder of the director of Valentina Korneeva Trading Company LLP in January 1998, the organization of two attempts for the murder of the management company Petroleum Handelsgez Evgeny Rybin in November 1998 (then the fish was fired from the machine gun) and in March) and in March) and in March) and in March) and in March) and in March) and in March) and in March) 1999 (attackers blew up a fish car, but it was not in it), and also accused of organizing the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov in June 1998, together with Pichugin, five more were held in the case: Vladimir Shapiro, Gennady Tsigelnik, Yevgeny Reshetnikov, Mikhail Ovsyannikov and Vladislav Levin - direct performers and combinants and combinants. The customers listed were named by the leaders of the Yukos, in particular, one of the co -owners of Leonid Nevzlin The innocence of Alexei Pichugin claimed that not a single evidence of his guilt was presented - the “unidentified time”, “unidentified Yukos leaders” were constantly in the verdict To cancel the verdict and generally terminate the case in "Relations with Pichugin's non -involvement in crimes."

Representatives of the prosecutor’s office, although they were satisfied with the fact that Pichugin’s fault was also insisted on the cancellation of the sentence, as they considered the measure of punishment too soft. In the debate, they demanded for Pichugin the highest measure - life imprisonment.

All cassations were considered by the Supreme Court yesterday. The court refused to satisfy the complaints of lawyers, taking the side of the state prosecution. As a result, Pichugin’s accomplices left the deadlines unchanged, and the court will consider the second case of the main defendant again.

Prosecutor Anatoly Bashmakov noted that "is completely satisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court." In turn, the lawyer of Alexei Pichugin Georgy Kagener told Gazeta that it could only comment on the decision of the Supreme Court as a “legal lawlessness”. “The court did not take into account any defense arguments. This is similar to a fiction of justice,” the defender believes. “The presence of lawyers in the process was, in fact, a formality.” The lawyer stated that he did not expect anything good for his client in the new process in the Moscow City Court - most likely, the sentence will be increased.

02/21/2007 / Vladimir Barinov, the material was published in the newspaper No. 33 of 02.22.2007.