Investigative Committee collects saliva on the “YUKOS case” in “Postcard Human Rights”

Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of the Human Rights Postcards, was summoned to the Investigative Committee for fingerprinting and saliva sampling. about this , referring to Pryanishnikov himself. writes MBKh Media

In the UK, this is explained by the need for a genotypic examination as part of the investigation of the so-called "YUKOS case" of 2003.

“Probably, they suspect that I sealed the envelope with Apatit shares with saliva in the distant 90s,” Pryanishnikov commented on the demand. “But seriously, in this way they apparently want to establish the ownership of the seized equipment,” he added.

• On July 9, the security forces came with searches to the offices of Open Russia and MBKh Media in Moscow. At the same time, searches were carried out at the home of Open Russia coordinator Tatyana Usmanova and her mother’s apartment, the organization’s employee Olga Gorelik, and the chief editor of MBKh Media Sergey Prostakov, as well as the relatives of Alexei Pryanishnikov, coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard . The searches took place in connection with the Yukos case and were connected with the privatization of the Apatit company in 1994.

• In May 2019, it became known about the "third case" of Yukos. The politician and the former head of the company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and other unnamed defendants in the case are suspected of legalizing $6 billion.

• In April 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office declared undesirable a number of organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Including the Open Russia Civic Movement. The Russian movement "Open Russia" was not banned. On March 30, 2019, Open Russia declared self-liquidation for security reasons, after which the Russian public organization Open Russia was established.