The third business of Yukos instead of an amnesty

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on a sentence in the second case of Yukos

Today, another expert in the “second case of Yukos”, deputy director of the Center for Legal and Economic Research of the Higher School of Economics, Mikhail Subbotin, has been called for a conversation in the Investigative Committee of Russia. He said that he was talking with investigators on Wednesday. Earlier it became known that a retired judge, a member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights, Tamara Morshchakov, was called in the UK. Most likely, she will visit the UK on Thursday, June 27.

Calls of Subbotin and Morchakova can be associated with the so -called "expert affair." In 2011, the Presidential Council for Human Rights on behalf of Dmitry Medvedev conducted an examination in the “second case of Yukos”. According to the results of the group, a statement was made that Plato Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky received their second term undeservedly. Now the UK is trying to prove that the examination in the “second case of Yukos” was carried out with Khodorkovsky’s money. It is known that other members of the expert commission were subjected to pressure: according to Tamara Morshchakova, lawyer Anatoly Naumova forced to resign from the Academy of the Prosecutor General. The rector of Rash, called for interrogation in the UK, Sergei Guriev decided that it was unsafe to stay in Russia, left his post and moved to Paris.

The Scientific Director of the National Research Center of the Higher School Evgeny Yasin is sure that the pressure on experts is associated with the desire of the authorities to start the third criminal prosecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev:

- I am sure that another muck is preparing. Sk makes attempts to collect materials for the third process that would allow Khodorkovsky to put Khodorkovsky for an even longer period .

The economist believes that the conflict of large business and the bureaucracy has always been, but has become aggravated with the coming to the power of Vladimir Putin and his team, which for the most part comes from the special services clan or the so -called "security forces".

“ As a result, those who wanted the modernization of Russia lost, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, first of all ,” says Evgeny Yasin.

The head of the Foundation Indem Georgy Satarov believes that everything that is now around the Yukos case is part of the general policy of the current government, and evaluates the prospects of Mikhail Khodorkovsky extremely negatively:

- This is a trend to strengthen control over everything that is autonomous, independently and is capable of its own judgments. Now this is considered as a threat to the regime and is suppressed in all directions. It is unlikely that they will allow Khodorkovsky and Lebedev from prison. They will come up with a third thing .

The Investigative Committee organized a return to the "expert case" just at a time when the State Duma received a decree on an amnesty decree for convicts for economic crimes. Former Yukos leaders do not fall into the category of amnesty, since they were condemned, among other things, for fraud, and they are not going to amnesty for fraudsters. In addition, the upcoming amnesty will not affect businessmen convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the complex.

In December 2010, the Khamovniki court of Moscow - Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was sentenced to 14 years in prison in December 2010, finding guilty of fraud and theft of oil. Later, the Moscow City Court reduced the term to 11 years. The first verdict to the leaders of Yukos and Menatep was issued in 2005 - this is nine years in prison for tax evasion. Businessmen should be released in 2014.

Russian funds and bloggers continue this week a campaign of letters and videos Mikhail Khodorkovsky in connection with the 50th anniversary of the former owner of Yukos, which he will celebrate in the colony on June 26. On the eve of his birthday, the Echo of Moscow radio station published a message from the parents of Khodorkovsky.