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The court’s decision to extend the term of detention of Lebedev was adopted "for far -fetched and artificial occasions"
The decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow on the extension of the detention of the head of the MFI CJSC MEFA MENATEP Platon Lebedev was adopted "on the most far -fetched and artificial occasions and reasons," Evgeny Baru lawyer Yevgeny Baru said on the air of the Ekho Moscow radio station.
Having made such a decision, the Basmanny Court granted the petition of the Prosecutor General's Office; The deadline for Lebedev’s detention is extended for 2 months - until October 30.
According to Bar, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation presented "absolutely formal materials, not the content of any reason to extend the investigation."
At the same time, the lawyer noticed that the defense "had no illusions about such a decision" "court.
“We intend to get acquainted with the case materials in the near future and, according to the results of the study of the case, conduct our analytics about what was collected by investigators and was filed into such a huge number of volumes,” the bar added.
Answering the question of Lebedev’s health, the lawyer noticed that the state of his client "is a little worse, it is a little better, but that he is in a painful state - the fact is indisputable."
Baru recalled that Lebedev was detained by law enforcement agencies when he was in the hospital, doctors diagnosed him with vegetative-vascular dystonia.
The head of Menatep, the co -owner of the oil company Yukos Platon Lebedev was detained on July 2 and placed in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center. The basis for the detention and initiation against him by the Prosecutor General of the criminal case was the materials for checking the appeal of State Duma deputy Vladimir Yudin .
On July 3, the Basmanny Court granted the petition of the Prosecutor General’s Office and gave the arrest of Plato Lebedev .
The prosecutor's office is incriminating to Lebedev theft in 1994 of a 20 percent package of shares of Apatit OJSC, belonging to the state, in the amount of 283 million $ 142 thousand. Lebedev was charged with fraud by embezzlement on large sizes, intentionally causing property damage and non -fulfillment of a court decision, as well as in tax evasion.
The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia on August 22 completed the investigation of the criminal case against Plato Lebedev. However, lawyers and the accused have not yet begun to familiarize themselves with the case file. “First, the defense needs to make sure that they are suitable for study: whether they are filed, numbered, etc.,” Yevgeny Baru told reporters.
According to him, Lebedev’s case is 146 volumes, 200 sheets in each volume. The lawyer found it difficult to say how much time it would take to protect and the accused in order to study the case materials.
The Prosecutor General’s Office believes that Lebedev could hide from the investigation , and this explains the preventive measure chosen for him - the detention, said Irina Aleshina, First Deputy Head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to her, Lebedev had three passports, he transferred a significant amount abroad and had access to private aircraft of Menatep .
The representative of Menatep expressed disagreement with the arguments represented by the Prosecutor General. According to Yuri Kotler, the head of the public relations department of the Menatep Group, "it is impossible to keep a person on suspicion of economic crimes, and tax evasion is an economic crime."
Commenting on the accusations of the Prosecutor General’s Office that Lebedev transferred part of his business to Switzerland, to Gibraltar, Cyprus and Liechtenstein, Kotler said: “The group has subsidiaries on Gibraltar and Switzerland. In Liechtenstein and in Cyprus, there is no main business of the group and is widely known to the general public and the General Prosecutor General’s Office - this "Apatit", Yukos and banks.
Kotler also denied information about the transfer of a large amount of money to Lebedev’s credit card. He added that the Menatep group has the only aircraft, and he does not stand at Vnukovo Airport in anticipation of Lebedev. "A person is not a needle. How can he just take and fly away?" - asked Kotler.
The press service of Menatep said that the speedy transfer of the case to the court is fully consistent with the interests of the MFI . According to the press service, "the case has no legal and judicial prospects and is only an instrument of pressure from the Prosecutor General’s Office in the implementation of a certain political order."
At the same time, the MFI press release is noted, "causes some surprise the speed with which the investigation group managed to compile 146 volumes of the criminal case." "It is obvious that this indicates the weakness of the position of the Prosecutor General and the desire to shift all responsibility for the further development of events to the judicial system," the press service said in a statement.
“In addition, there is a fear that the court against Plato Lebedev will take place immediately before the parliamentary elections in Russia, and if the pressure on the court continues, then the process above it can turn into one of the next election productions,” the press release said.
Yukos leaders also sharply criticizes the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office
"An unprecedented campaign unleashed by the Prosecutor General’s Office in relation to the Yukos NK, its employees and shareholders, has not yet been given, does not give and cannot give any evidence for any of the criminal cases, despite the fact that hundreds of law enforcement officials are employed in their" investigation "," the official statement of Yukos said.
The statement states that all considerations in the courts of the "cases of the NK Yukos" and "cases of Plato Lebedev" were carried out in closed mode. According to the company, attempts to explain such closeness by compliance with commercial secrets are insolvent.
“People who fulfilled the order of“ NK Yukos ”cases were misleading their patrons, promising them a slight victory. The names of the organizers of this order of representatives of the reborn, criminal part of the law enforcement system are known. And we are sure that their activities will receive a timely legal assessment,” the Yukos leadership emphasizes.