Prokhorov will pay for Urlashov

The leader of the Civil Platform party, Mikhail Prokhorov, said that he would send a petition to the Yaroslavl court with a request not to arrest the mayor of the city of Yevgeny Urlashov, detained on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday on suspicion of extortion of a bribe.

In 2011, Urlashov left the United Russia party and a year later joined the Civil Platform. He was going to lead the list of this party in the autumn elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma.

When exactly the court will take place, which should choose a preventive measure for Urlashov is still unknown. This can happen on Thursday or Friday. But another event related to this story will definitely happen today. Representatives of the Presidential Council of Human Rights and the Public Chamber arrived in Yaroslavl. They will meet with representatives of law enforcement and ask them, including about the circumstances of the detention of Urlashov. According to relatives, the mayor, as in an action movie, was pulled out of the car, blocking the road. According to official reports, Urlashov was detained at the exit from the headquarters of the Civil Platform.

One of the experts who are in Yaroslavl, the head of the National Anti -Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov says that it is too early to draw the final conclusions of the case of the case of Yevgeny Urlashov: “We met with representatives of the city hall today, and also received the case that the case has been fabricated, we cannot. We have issues on the mayor’s detention. Member of the Council of the President Yevgeny Maslovsky, an investigator of the Council of the General Prosecutor's Office, is a member of the Presidential Council, and the Expert of the Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is engaged in corruption with the investigative committee, that we will conduct a meeting of our group with them and the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can have a small legal violation We take this business, and we have received understanding and support that they will provide all the necessary materials, including those that have not been in the media, to understand whether this is a political business or to say that this is a political matter, but it is political in essence, since the situation is beneficial for various political forces.

The oppositionist, ex-deputy of the State Duma, candidate for the post of governor of the Moscow Region Gennady Gudkov, said his desire to understand the incident on Twitter:

On Thursday, Russian newspapers report to sources in law enforcement agencies that three city administration officials detained in the case of extortion of a bribe are guilty and indicate Urlashov as the organizer of the crime. However, according to official information, only one of them has yet to deal with the investigation. They offered such a deal to Urlashov himself, says his lawyer Sergey Golubenkov. As Izvestia writes with reference to their sources, not only three detained officials, but also an unnamed 35-year-old intermediary, who had to convey a bribe to Urlashov, went to the deal with the investigation.

As Golubenkov told Interfax, most likely, Urlashov will be arrested by a court decision all the same today, and then they will be transported to one of the investigative insulators of Moscow, since his case was transferred to the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

"Kommersant" writes that the Office for the fight against economic crimes of the Yaroslavl region "developed" Urlashov for a long time, however, the operation passed to the active phase two weeks ago, after contacting the police, entrepreneur Sergey Shmelev, who supposedly extorted 45 million rubles, a rollback for the implementation of a city order to harvest in the city.

On the eve of the Investigative Committee, the audio recording of Urlashov’s conversations with a businessman, who allegedly testifies to his fault. Investigators promised to publish the video in the near future, but so far this did not happen. Another lawyer Urlashov Mikhail Pisaret told Radio Liberty that from the published audio recording it is not clear who, with whom and what he was talking about, but the traces of the installation are obvious. "This record can be applied to 5-6 completely different life situations."

Supporters of Urlashov still do not believe in his guilt and consider the case of the political revenge of the federal authorities for criticizing the policy of the Kremlin and United Russia. On charges of extorting bribes, Evgeny Urlashov, threatens up to 15 years in prison.