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Another Alexey Pichugin’s proceeding will start on 17 of April 2007 in the Moscow City Court, hall ¹ 408. This information was announced by the lawyers of the convict. Examination of the case is ordered to Petr Egorovich Shtunder, the judge of the Moscow City Court.
On the 23-d of March Alexey Pichugin’s lawyers put at his site editors’ disposal the cassational ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with regard to case of former employee of the oil company „YUKOS“. According to this document, the requirements of law regarding Alexey Pichugin were not fulfilled.
On Wednesday, February, 21, 2007, in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation the hearings on criminal case of Alexey Pichugin, the former employee of oil company YUKOS, were held. I shall remind, that appeals against the verdict of the MoscowCity Court (guilty at all points of accusation and is sentenced to 24- year deprivation of freedom in the correctional colony of strict regime) were lodged both by the prosecution and by the defence.
On February, 14 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation must investigate Alexei Pichugin’s case who was doomed by the Moscow City Court on the 17 of August 2006. To carry back, the judge of the Moscow City Court Vladimir Usov doomed the former YUKOS employee to 24 years of imprisonment and to the endurance of the punishment in a correctional colony of strict regime. The appeals were lodged both by the prosecution and by the defence.
The lawyer of Alexey Pichugin Kseniya Kostromina informed about a new search conducted on the cottage of her defendant in Golicyno, tells „The Commersant“ gazette. the work men from the neighboring dacha informed about this fact. However, according to the lawyer, the purpose of the search conducted is unknown. „Neither the wife nor Pichugin himself were given a notice of the intended search. The door was unhinged and after covered with veneer“, told Kseniya Kostromina.
As it was informed by „Commersant“ gazette on October 17, in the nearest future GosDuma will consider the project of law according to which the norms of active repentance will also cover the criminals who committed grave and particularly grave crimes. According to the lawyer Georgiy Kaganer’s opinion, the number of such criminals may include the members of Igor Korovnikov band, who were sentenced to long terms for manslaughters and rapes and on the testimonies of whom the prosecution in respect of Alexey Pichugin based was constructed.
In Moscow unknown persons cleaned out the office of lawyer Georgiy Kaganer, representing the interests of Alexey Pichugin, informs Gazeta.ru. this was told by another lawyer of Pichugin Kseniya Kostromina.
Dmitriy Shohin and Kamil Kashaev were proposed new offices in GenProsecution. Dmitry Shohin was appointed to the post of the Head of Administrative-Methodical Department. While Kamil Kashaev transferred to the former position of Dmitry Shohin and became the Head of Public Prosecutors Department. Simultaneously, the status of this post was increased: the Head of the Public Prosecutors Department is now the Deputy Head of Division on the Maintenance of Procurators Participation in the considerations of criminal matters.
Alexey Pichugin stated again about his guiltlessness. HRO.org reporting
On February, 14 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation must investigate Alexei Pichugin’s case who was doomed by the Moscow City Court on the 17 of August 2006. To carry back, the judge of the Moscow City Court Vladimir Usov doomed the former YUKOS employee to 24 years of imprisonment and to the endurance of the punishment in a correctional colony of strict regime. The appeals were lodged both by the prosecution and by the defence.
