Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who defended Vladimir Kara-Murza, left Russia due to the threat of a criminal case
Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who defended the politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, left Russia a few days before the verdict was announced to his client. The reason was the threat of a criminal case against him. Prokhorov himself told the Voice of America about this. “Both the prosecutor and the judge in the process, for various reasons, stated that [I] should not only be expelled from the Bar Association, but also consider the issue of initiating a criminal case.