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Mikhail Khodorkovsky confirmed that he asked the president of pardon in connection with family circumstances. At the same time, "the issue of guilt was not posed on a plead of guilt," is emphasized in Khodorkovsky’s special statement , published after his arrival in Berlin.

The ex-head of the "Yukos" "is glad of a positive decision" at its request, which was submitted on November 12. He thanks everyone who supported him. Khodorkovsky expressed special gratitude to the former Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany Hans-Ditrich Gensher for personal participation in his fate.

“I constantly think about those who are still in prison,” Khodorkovsky said in a statement. The convicted with him Platon Lebedev on Friday said that he did not intend to write a petition for pardon yet. “I am very happy for Mikhail Borisovich,” the lawyer who visited Lebedev said to Lebedev.

On Friday, Khodorkovsky freed himself from the colony and arrived in Berlin on a private plane. Gensher met him at the airport. "Khodorkovsky was very tired, but finally happy to gain freedom," Gensher said in an interview with AFP. The politician said that he met twice with Putin in the Khodorkovsky case.

According to Gensher, Khodorkovsky did not know that his mother had returned to Russia from Germany, where treatment was undergoing. On Saturday, she should come to her son in Berlin. According to Berliner Zeitung, Khodorkovsky settled in the five -star hotel Adlon Kempinski.

In turn, the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel said that he was very happy about the liberation of Khodorkovsky. According to Spiegel Online, from Germany, the ex-head of the Yukos will go to Switzerland.

Earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service reported about Khodorkovsky’s departure. "During the release, Khodorkovsky addressed a personal request to draw up documents for traveling abroad. After the release, he flew to Germany, where his mother is treated," the FSIN said in a statement. Meanwhile, on the eve of Marina Khodorkovskaya was in the coral near Moscow.

Vladimir Putin signed the decree on the pardon of Khodorkovsky on December 20. "Guided by the principles of humanity, I decide: to have mercy on the convicted Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich, born in 1963, a native of the city of Moscow, freeing him from further serving a sentence of imprisonment," the decree says. The document entered into force from the moment of signing.

The release of Khodorkovsky in the Federal Service of the penalties was reported an hour after the publication of the decree. Politsek’s lawyer Vadim Kluvgan received official confirmation from the leadership of the colony. Answering the question of what plans Khodorkovsky’s plans and whether he is going to go to Moscow, the Livant said: “I don’t know about plans, but his place of residence in Moscow.”

On Friday, Kommersant, citing unnamed sources, said that Khodorkovsky turned to Putin with a request to have mercy after a conversation with special services . They "told him about the deterioration of the state of the mother suffering from cancer and the new criminal case that was about to be instituted. This conversation without lawyers and forced Mikhail Khodorkovsky to contact the president," the publication reports.

At the same time, the sources of the newspaper argue that, despite the numerous reports of the third case of Yukos, the new affairs regarding Khodorkovsky were not initiated at all. All checks were carried out in the framework of the so -called main case of an oil company.

The fact that Khodorkovsky sent a petition for pardon to Putin , the president himself said after a large press conference at the Center for International Trade. According to the head of state, the paper came to him "recently."

Putin added that he intends to satisfy the petition "in the near future." “He has already spent more than 10 years in places of imprisonment - this is a serious punishment,” the head of state noted. “He refers to a humanitarian nature, he has a mother,“ and I think that you can make a decision. ”

The head of state noted that for pardon Khodorkovsky had to submit the appropriate paper, but until the very recent time he did not. However, after filing a petition, nothing prevents the signing of the decree on pardon.

Khodorkovsky’s lawyers immediately stated that they did not know anything about the appeal of their client. Vadim Kluvgan also added that by law the president has the right to issue decrees on pardon without requests from prisoners. However, shortly after, the press center of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev distributed a statement in which he asked to consider all these comments invalid "before the meeting of Mikhail Khodorkovsky with his lawyers." The media reported that the clubman went to Segezu to meet with the client.

Marina Khodorkovskaya, the mother of the ex-head of the Yukos, supported her son’s petition for pardon. According to her, she "completely and completely" supports any decision of her son. At the same time, she noted that neither she nor the businessman’s lawyers know how exactly the petition for pardon was transferred to the president. Marina Khodorkovskaya stated that she had been seen with her son for the last time, but then he did not express his intentions to ask for pardon.

At the same time, the Commission on the Affairs of the Administration of the Republic of Karelia Interfax said that the petition from the former Khodorkovsky was not received to them. The commission emphasized that they "learned about everything from the media."

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax that the Kremlin was considered a pleading of Khodorkovsky for pardon. “If he asks for pardon, then he pleads guilty,” he said. Peskov specified that the second person involved in the Yukos case Platon Lebedev did not give a pardon.

During the press conference itself, Putin said that he did not see the "special prospects" of the third case of Yukos . “I don’t see any threats to anyone,” he said.

At the same time, the head of state noted that he was not surprised by the investigation of the case, since "this is the work of the prosecutor's office to track violations of the law." However, we must not forget that in addition to it there is still an Investigative Committee and the court, Putin added.