Interfax: Interpol requested additional materials in the Khodorkovsky case

Interpol requested from Russia additional materials in the case of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This is reported by Interfax, citing a source familiar with the situation.

The interlocutor of the agency clarified that Interpol’s decision to refuse to put the entrepreneur on the international wanted list can be revised.

"Interpol said that he was ready to revise his position on the issue of announcing Khodorkovsky, accused of involvement in the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk, and asked for additional materials in the case from the Russian side," the source said.

According to him, the relevant agreement was reached as a result of negotiations between representatives of Russia and the international police organization, whose headquarters are located in French Lyon.

"The Russian side assured that in the near future she would transport the documents requested to France," the source noted.

The press secretary of Khodorkovsky Kulle Pispanen, in turn, said that she had not heard of such statements from Interpol, and she would not have trusted media sources.

“I don’t know these sources. Everything looks like the next duck and the stuffing of the Investigative Committee. That's when Interpol declares, and not some sources close to some publication there, then we will say,” she said in an interview with the Moscow radio station.

At the end of March, the head of the Main Directorate of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Saak Karapetyan, said that the department transferred some additional materials to Khodorkovsky to Interpol. At the same time, Karapetyan noted that Russia intends to further achieve the issuance of all the accused and in absentia convicted in the Yukos case, who are now abroad. In particular, according to the representative of the department, Russia has already managed to achieve the issuance of Natalya Konovalova from Cyprus, who was in absentia convicted of theft of more than 8 billion rubles from Tomskneft, although five years took the request.

On December 11, 2015, the Investigative Committee in absentia accused Khodorkovsky of organizing the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov, as well as two attempts on the murder of entrepreneur Yevgeny Rybin. On December 23, the ex-head of the Yukos was arrested in absentia .

On February 11, the official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said that Khodorkovsky was put on the international wanted list of Interpol in the case of the murder of Petukhov. The National Bureau of Interpol in Russia sent relevant documents to the Central Bureau of the International Organization in Lyon.

On February 12, Interpol rejected the request . "The General Secretariat of Interpol found that it did not comply with the organization’s rules. In this regard, the NCB in Moscow was notified that Interpol channels cannot be involved in international police cooperation in this case," the headquarters of the international organization said.

In March, it became known that Khodorkovsky and other former co -owners of Yukos may be charged with the illegality of the acquisition of shares of an oil company. According to Markin, Khodorkovsky did not pay a penny for the purchase of Yukos shares , and the Investigative Committee will soon be ready to prove it.

"This is the case when" well, they still know. "But they can’t prove. This is the case when everyone knew, investigators worked in this direction and are already close to the evidence that this is so. We already have certain evidence in the form of documents," he said.

Khodorkovsky replied that Yukos was acquired in accordance with the laws in 1996 in Russia.