Translated material
Bring the diluted
The Moscow City Court refused to remove the arrest from the property of the deceased vice president of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan. According to New Gazeta, back in December, the Simonovsky court of Moscow decided to remove the arrest, but this decision was protested by the prosecutor's office. The defense side of Aleksanyan's relatives appealed this protest in the Moscow City Court and was refused. The case was sent for a new consideration to the same court.
The Simonovsky court of Moscow terminated the criminal case against Aleksanyan in June 2010 due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. In December 2011, the court decided to remove the arrest from the property of Aleksanyan, since the case was closed and all civil lawsuits were rejected on it. But the prosecutor's office protested, saying that the victims were not notified of the removal of arrest and that other criminal cases against Aleksanyan were possible. At the time of protest, the prosecutor’s office passed two months from the day of the death of Aleksanyan.
Vasily Aleksanyan died in Moscow on October 3, 2011.
On April 6, 2006, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow saw the signs of the corpus delicti in the actions of Aleksanyan and agreed to the Prosecutor General’s Office to bring the Yukos vice president to criminal liability. On the same day, Aleksanyan was detained, and the Prosecutor General’s Office charged him under two articles of the Criminal Code - for legalization, laundering of funds (Article 174.1, part 4 of the Criminal Code) and in assignment or embezzlement, that is, embezzlement, alien property (Article 160 of the Criminal Code). According to the prosecutor’s office, Aleksanyan committed the theft of the Tomskneft property, as well as shares of oil refineries and oil transmitting companies in the VNK. On April 7, 2006, the Basmanny Court authorized the arrest of Aleksanyan.
In September 2006, AIDS was diagnosed at the UKOS Vice President. During the imprisonment, Aleksanyan’s health was significantly deteriorated. He almost blinded, and also fell ill with liver cancer and tuberculosis.
Some time after the detection of another deadly disease, lymphoma, the Simonovsky court of Moscow suspended the process as a result of analyzes. On February 8, 2008, Aleksanyan was transferred from the Sailor "Sailor Silence" to the Moscow City Hospital No. 60.
On July 14, 2008, by the decision of the Simonovsky court of Moscow, the lawsuit over Vasily Aleksanyan was resumed to extend his arrest. Lawyers immediately challenged this court decision. According to the defenders of Aleksanyan, despite the fact that the diseases of their client fell immediately under three points of the list of diseases releasing from punishment, the former vice president of Yukos was under the escort for about two years and five months.
Aleksanyan himself stated that the prosecution forced him to give false testimony against the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of Menatep Plato Lebedev in exchange for full treatment in the wild.
On December 8, 2008, the court decided to free Aleksanyan from custody on bail in the amount of 50 million rubles. On December 12, Aleksanyan was released from custody.
