The Moscow City Court acquitted journalist Lurie

The Moscow City Court passed an acquittal to the journalist Oleg Lurie, who accused the investigator, Rapsey reports. “To justify Lurie on the accusations under the absence of a crime in his actions and in connection with the acquittal of the jury,” the judge Oleg Gaidar announced the verdict. He also recognized as justified the right to rehabilitation and compensation for harm caused. According to the verdict, almost 6 thousand rubles will be paid from the budget to his lawyer for their intended purpose.

Earlier, the jury considered proven that on behalf of Lurie on the Internet there was an open letter to the investigator. But, answering the question, the jury excluded from the prosecution the indication that the information set in it does not correspond to reality.

According to the prosecution, the defendant wrote an open letter to the investigator, which stated that he “fully falsified” the criminal case against him, “filled him with roughly worked fakes and waste paper,” accused of bullying, threats and deception, and also reproached for the use of expensive things, in particular the car.

According to the prosecution, the letter was transferred through the lawyer to the acquaintance of the defendant and placed on his blog, where it was discovered by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which carried out monitoring. At the same time, Lurie said that the open letter was posted on the Internet in a completely different way, but what and with whose help, he did not report out of fear, "that innocent people would suffer from the actions of the victim and his colleagues."

Acting as a victim, investigator Andrei Kisin, who appeared in the court in uniform, said that Lurie "did not threaten, did not blackmail and did not deceive." According to him, after the appearance of an open letter and its reprints in a number of media, the prosecutor's office carried out a check according to the above facts, following which a decision was made to refuse to institute criminal proceedings. In addition, Kisin said that the internal audit was carried out, but not a single argument of Lurie found confirmation.

In 2009, Lurie was sentenced to eight years in the colony for extortion, then the deadline was halved. It was found that the journalist demanded 80 thousand dollars to refuse to publish articles that compromise senator Vladimir Slutsker and his wife Olga Slutsker.

The journalist after the excuse will still remain in custody, as he is serving a term in the first criminal case that expires in January 2012. Earlier, the court refused him to parole, however, this decision was canceled by the Moscow City Court and in the near future the request would be revised.