Look for from a woman

In Moscow, the TFR searched the journalist and human rights activist Zoe Light. The visit of investigatorswas announced by lawyer Anna Stavitskaya.

As the journalist Timofei Dzyadko, the son of a journalist, specified , the search began at about 11 in the morning.

“According to our data, the investigation team in the amount of 12 people is located in its apartment. The investigation group is led by an investigator for especially important cases (Ruslan) Nigmatullin,” the open Russia said . “Most likely, the search with Light is connected with the case No. 18/41-03 - the main case of Yukos.”

According to Stavitskaya, the security forces downloaded the information from the computers, looked at the documents, and sorted out the books. The lawyer confirmed that the search is connected with the case of embezzlement against the leadership of Yukos. "From the point of view of the investigation, from these stolen means, various organizations, individuals, including Zoe Light, are financing," the lawyerwrote .

Later, Stavitskayareported that the search was authorized by the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Elena Lenskaya on January 18.

According to The New Times, the basis for the search was that in the light apartment there may be information about receiving money from organizations with the names of Palmus Foundation, Khodorkovsky Foundation, Corbiere Trust, Rysaffe Company (CI) Limited and about "The expenditure of funds for the performance of work and the provision of services, the supply of goods, as well as documents on the execution of agreements." According to the sources of the publication, investigators also searched for correspondence data with persons "included in the organized group who committed theft and legalization under the leadership of Khodorkovsky."

“Searches for the light are carried out in the Yukos case, this is an ordinary routine procedure that will not turn into a human rights activist by any procedural status,” said the source of Interfax, familiar with the situation. “Conventional technical work. A lot of noise out of nothing.”

The press service of the Investigative Committee confirmed that the search was carried out in the Yukos case. "As part of the criminal case, the investigation received information on the storage of light documents in Zoe, testifying to the circumstances of the transfer to the Russian Federation and further expenditure of funds previously stolen by M. Khodorkovsky and its accomplices. In connection with this, investigators are searched at the place of residence of Zoe Light, the department said. - the search is not related to professional or human rights activities of the light, light. And he was aimed exclusively to check the circumstances of the legalization of funds stolen by Khodorkovsky and other persons acting with him. ”

“Interestingly, and where are these documents? !! ​​All day they dig an apartment with their nose - and not a single such documentation,”said Stavitskaya.

According to Medusa, the search ended only about 21 hours. According to the publication, the human rights activist seized some information carriers. The procedural status of light in the case is not yet known.

A number of oppositionists came to support the human rights activist during the search, including journalist Alexander Podrabinek, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya and leader of the Lev Ponomarev Law Movement. However, they were not allowed into the apartment.

Svetova, the observer The New Times, is actively cooperating with the Open Russia. Since 2008, the human rights activist has been part of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission. At the end of 2016, she advanced to the Mordovian PMC, but was not included in its composition .

After the search. Shooting Veronika Kutsyllo:

On December 22, 2015, the Investigators of the Investigative Committee conducted searches for seven Open Russia employees , including the editor-in-chief of the website of Veronika Kutsyllo and the St. Petersburg activist Parnassus Natalia Gryaznevich, as well as from the press secretary of Khodorkovsky Kyulle Pispanen.

As the press service of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin, who headed the press service of the Investigative Committee, said, the searches were related to the decision of the arbitration court in the Hague in the lawsuit of the shareholders of the Yukos. "In connection with international trials initiated on behalf of the Hulley Enterprises Limited, Yukos Universal Limited and Vetran Petroleum Limited, aimed at a compulsory collection of funds in the amount of more than 50 billion US dollars, the result is also checked by the investigation. The information presented by the plaintiffs to international and foreign courts on the legality and legitimacy of the acquisition of shares of OJSC Oil Company Yukos and their subsequent disposal, ”the report said on the website of the Investigative Department.

Against the main shareholders and top managers of Yukos, Markin recalled, the case of the theft and implementation of oil of subsidiaries of the company and the laundering of the proceeds of the proceeds is being investigated. The persons who came to the searches were concluded by the official, "are financed from abroad from the accounts of organizations, in the past, and possibly in the present, controlled by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Leonid Nevzlin and other participants of the group they head."