The transition to cashlessness

The President of the "Russian Railways" Vladimir Yakunin filed a lawsuit in the Presnensky district court of Moscow on The New York Times on the protection of honor and dignity. It is reported by TASS. The first hearings in the case were scheduled for February 19.

According to the agency, Yakunin’s lawyer Alexei Melnikov, the head of the Russian Railways demands to refute the information contained in the article by Peter Baker "with the sanctions resumed the search for the secret wealth of Putin" , published in the newspaper’s issue of April 27, 2014. In it, the lawyer explained, the “violation of the legislation of Russia” is announced to Yakunin.

“This information is false,” Melnikov said, “and we ask the court to recognize them not true and oblige the defendant to refute them, both in the Russian publication of The New York Times and in the German and Austrian newspapers, which have the New York Times.”

Yakunin did not put forward monetary claims to the newspaper, the lawyer added.

In the article by Baker, the head of Russian Railways was mentioned among persons from the near circle of Vladimir Putin. In addition, the author quoted the telegram of the American diplomat published by Wikileaks. In it, the official stated that, as he was told in a private conversation by a certain manager of the Russian branch of General Electric, Yakunin "paid Putin significant amounts of cash." The same manager estimated the condition of the Russian leader in the amount of more than $ 10 billion.

After the annexation of Crimea, Yakunin was included in the US sanctions list. The head of Russian Railways is prohibited from entering the country, and its assets in the United States are frozen.