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Mosgorsud: We will not fire Vasiliev
The Moscow City Court will not dismiss the press secretary of the Khamovnik court Natalia Vasiliev, who stated that the judge in the Yukos case was imposed in a higher court. “The issue of dismissal is not raised, Natalya Vasilieva is currently on vacation,” Anna Usacheva, press secretary of the Moscow City Court, told RIA Novosti. According to her, "the question of bringing Vasilyeva to justice is the competence of law enforcement agencies."
"The statement of Natalia Vasilieva is a provocation. It is immediately clear that the girl is not familiar with the basics of the procedural law. Judge Danilkin listened to the case for two years, and only he could write the sentence. None of the other judges, including the judges of the Moscow City Court, are not aware of the details in the case, but to write the verdict, without considering the case, is simply impossible," said Usacheva.
In her opinion, Vasiliev will give up his statements. The head of the press service recalled that the conviction was appealed and will be considered in the cassation instance of the Moscow City Court in the near future.
“Any mistakes made by the judge will be visible to the naked eye, the obligation of higher instances is to check. I am sure that Natalya Vasilieva will still refuse their comments, such cases have already been when the witnesses are given the same testimony, and then say that they were forced to give such evidence,” said Usacheva.
“Here, not just pressure on the court takes place, but a PR action clearly planned by someone. Vasiliev accuses the judge of committing a serious crime, it remains only to establish what motives she had,” she added.
In the sensationalinterview with Gazeta.ru and the Rain TV channel Vasilieva said that the verdict of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was written by the judges of the Moscow City Court and was imposed against his will Danilkin ( 
"Viktor Nikolaevich was obliged to communicate with the Moscow City Court at all the controversial moments that took place at the hearing. That is, when something was happening when something was not going as it should be, he had to provide information to the Moscow City Court and, accordingly, received certain orders from there how to behave further," Vasilyeva said. She admitted that the challenge of a witness to the process in the case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev could also be associated with the opinion of the Moscow City Court. When asked how this happened, Vasilieva answered: "On the phone." To the clarifying question to whom Danilkin called, Vasilieva suggested that the conversations were conducted with the chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova.
At the same time, according to Vasilyeva, Danilkin "was nervous, worried, indignant at the fact that he was indicated what needs to be done." “He really didn’t like it, it was understandable. Somehow there was a moment when I came in, I needed to discuss some questions with him, I began to ask them, and he was already in such an inflated state, and in my hearts threw the phrase:“ I can’t give you an answer to these questions, because I don’t know where I will be and that I will be with me. ”Another time I asked for work with the media, he already did not give up,“ Do it, ” I don’t care. "There was a moment when he became ill with my heart. I went into the office, and there it smelled very much by Corvalol, valerian, some kind of remedy from the heart," Vasilieva said.
Vasilieva also said that recently Danilkin "has become very gloomy, constantly depressed, sad." “Well, when you understand that there will be something bad - here is in this state. Unlucky, negligent, sometimes it is very annoyed,” Vasilieva said. Meanwhile, he used to be "cheerful, balanced, contact." “He was interested in everything around, and life in court, and all. The more time passed, the more he went into this process. And life in court, well, almost as if ceased to exist for him. Although it is very important for the chairman,” Vasilieva said.
Vasilyeva does not exclude that after her story Danilkin may have trouble. “I just know that if I hadn’t told all this, they would have been sent quietly. But now I don’t know how it will be,” Vasilieva said, suggesting at the same time that her story could help Danilkin “defend her honor if this story becomes vowel.”
On December 30, 2010, Judge Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky and Lebedev to 13.5 years in prison. Since they did not leave for six months of punishment by the first sentence, the court finally sentenced them to the age of 14. Reading the verdict, Danilkin said, in particular, that the correction of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is possible only in conditions of isolation from society. According to him, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev realized the criminal nature of his acts, as well as their consequences. Since they are recognized as sane, they can and should be responsible for the deed, said Danilkin.
According to Danilkin, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev deliberately committed serious crimes that were carefully planned. The judge noted that the criminal acts were committed by Khodorkovsky and Lebedev as part of an organized group, whose members are on the international wanted list, and were performed not once, but for a long period.
Danilkin recognized the testimony of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in the second case of Yukos. Kasyanov testified in favor of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, arguing that the sale of oil at low prices within the country was the usual practice, while, according to the side of the prosecution, so theft of oil was committed. According to the court, Kasyanov’s testimony were refuted by the testimony of other witnesses - the head of Sberbank German Gref and the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko. The testimony of Gref and Khristenko, according to Danilkin, confirm the guilt of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. Khristenko, in particular, said that he knew nothing about the "million" oil embezzlement of Yukos. "The physical theft of oil is a problem that has been and remains, this is done with the help of a fit into the pipe, but I do not know about theft in the volume of millions of tons," Khristenko said.
The arrested in 2003 Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in 2005 were sentenced by the Meshchansky court of Moscow to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and non -payment of taxes and were transferred to the colony. The second criminal case against the ex-heads of the company became known at the same time when the first lawsuit ended. In 2009, both were returned to Moscow in connection with the upcoming court in the second case and have since been contained in the investigative insulator.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky himself calls his second criminal case politically and corruptionly motivated and claims that the process is initiated by people who do not want to release it. The former head of the oil giant explains the criminal prosecution by the fact that he supported an independent opposition in Russia.