The appearances are failed

FSB investigators do not allow the lawyers of the team "Team 29" to their clients, enclosed in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center in "spy" cases. This was announced on his Facebook page by the leader of the group, lawyer Ivan Pavlov.

He clarified that Russians Gennady Kravtsov and Evgeny Petrin , accused under Article 275 of the Criminal Code (state treason), and a citizen of Ukraine Yuri Soloshenko , who were imputed with article 276 (espionage), are left without the help of a defender.

Evgeny Smirnov’s lawyer, Evgeny Smirnov, is trying to meet with the arrested for the second week, Pavlov wrote, but investigators each time refuse various pretexts. On April 1, Smirnov received another refusal, while the defender appointed by the FSB was admitted to Lefortovo without problems. At the same time, on March 30, investigators stopped responding to the calls of lawyers of the group.

“In my opinion, this is such a new investigative tactic - not to let independent lawyers to investigatedly arrested,” Pavlov concluded.

Recently, the investigator for particularly important cases of the 1st department of the FSB, Colonel of Justice, Mikhail Svinolup, was forced to stop the persecution of two clients Pavlov. On March 13, the case of a large mother from the Smolensk region Svetlana Davydova , who was accused of treason, was closed. On March 18, Svinolup terminated the case of the electrician of the Black Sea Fleet Sergei Minakov , who was charged with espionage. Davydov Pavlov defended him together with Sergey Badamshin, Minakov’s case was going to lead with Smirnov.