Discharging for knocking out

Former STRO SSRIO Service Aleksey Pichugin is located in the capital of the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center. This was stated by his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina, Interfax reports .

"I spoke with the head of the pre -trial detention center, he confirmed that Alexey was there," Kostromina said. The lawyer added that Pichugin’s well -being is good.

Pichugin was delivered to Lefortovo "for the procedural consolidation of his testimony in a new criminal case regarding the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a source familiar with the situation said ." Pichugin is a witness in this case-on the organization of the murder in the 98th year of the mayor of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov. It should be questioned for the procedural consolidation of his testimony, ”the source said.

Later, Kostromina met with Pichugin. “He feels good, the mood is good. He is cheerful, fresh, configured very businesslike and combined. He said that he did not change his position in the case,” the lawyer noted . According to Pichugin, he was not explained to the purpose of the transfer. It is also unknown to the deadline for which the Politzeck was transferred to Moscow.

On Monday, Khodorkovsky said that the security forces took Pichugin in an unknown direction from the IK-6 of the Black Dolphin special regime in the city of Sol-Iletsk Orenburg Region. There he was serving a life sentence.

As Khodorkovsky wrote, Pichugin’s lawyers reported that the convicted person was previously visited by “representatives of the special services” and demanded that “organizing the organizers of the process”. Otherwise, the security forces threatened to arrest the brother of Pichugin.

What special services and what process is meant, the ex-head of the Yukos did not specify. As we might assume, we are talking about the new case of Khodorkovsky, to which the organization of the murder of Petukhov and two more assassination murders are imputed.

The brother of the convict was a search; He was questioned. After that, he left Russia.

Pichugin was arrested in June 2003. In March 2005, he was sentenced to 20 years of strict regime on charges of organizing the murder of Tambov businessmen Sergey and Olga Gorin. In August 2007 in the second case, Pichugin received a life sentence . This time he was announced guilty of organizing several more murders and attempts, including the murders of Petukhov committed in 1998.

In June 2015, the TFR resumed an investigation into this murder . In December, the charges of organizing a crime and two more assassination attempts was in absentia Khodorkovsky.

The ex-head of Yukossuggested Pichugin to testify against him in exchange for freedom. However, the lawyer of the convicted person Ksenia Kostrina assured that her client did not intend to do this . “Alexei Pichugin, as never before, did not give an indication for anyone, and is not going to,” the lawyer noted.

On November 27, 2015, Pichugin sent a petition for pardon to Vladimir Putin. There was no question of recognizing the sane guilt in the document.

In early June, the Orenburg governor Yuri Berg, through whom such petitions submitted to the region’s prisoners were refused to transfer paper to Putin . He did not explain the motives of refusal.