The court left Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in custody

Thus Khamovnichesky court in Moscow granted the request of the prosecutor's office. Request for extension of period of detention to former owners. Yukos. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, accused of embezzlement amounting to about 900 billion rubles, the prosecutor has said Valery Lakhtin August 12. ... According to him, being at liberty, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are to run and use the hidden money abroad to counter the investigation and justice.

The fact that the defendants are accused of committing crimes in the economic sphere, according to the state prosecutor, does not help their plight, but quite the contrary. ... Such sentences are natural, justified and are understood even among the business community of the states ...

Protection, as before, appealed to by the recent presidential amendments to the law, which mitigated the responsibility for economic crimes. According to BFM. ru lawyer Michael Hodorokovkogo Yuri Schmidt, a request of prosecutors, not only was not subject to the satisfaction, but not even to be considered. The fact is that adopted in April this year, the federal law number 60 made ​​changes to the 108- th article of the Criminal Procedure Code (...

Counsel recalled that on May 14 Khamovnichesky Court refused to take into account changes in legislation, extending the term of the defendants in jail. The Moscow City Court on May 21 found a legitimate solution, deciding that the defendants imputed crime had been committed not in business. ...

He noted that the court will be extremely difficult to reject the request for the release of the defendants' attorneys. However, illusions about what decision to take the court, defense counsel is not fed. He quoted a statement by Mikhail Khodorkovsky that the ... ... ... - Here court did not decide anything. It only prepares the decisions taken elsewhere and by others ...

In turn, Platon Lebedev 's lawyer Vladimir Krasnov said the BFM. ru, that the court ... ... Nevertheless, the lawyers have promised to challenge the decision of the Moscow City Court, as well as the European Court of Human Rights.

Hodorokovsky and Lebedev from the meeting were not expecting anything extraordinary. The former head of Yukos, referring to the judge, said he knows that he carries out instructions from above. ... Even if the court rejects the request of prosecutors, a little change for him, because, along with Platon Lebedev was still serving an eight -year sentence by sentence of the court Meshchansky.

In order to make the decision to extend t arrest until November 17, Judge Victor Danilkin took time out for 2 days. About the President's law in its decision the judge chose not to mention at all. This is not the first time that the Moscow City Court decision related to the presidential amendments, raises many questions. Thus, on 15 July, he refused to recognize the actual entrepreneur Sergei Bobylev, the founder of one of the largest Russian retailers of computer and consumer electronics, the company Sunrise. The court refused to issue Bobylev, accused of fraud worth over 2.3 billion rubles on bail. In its decision the court stated that since the actions were criminal Bobylev, we can not assume that they were committed to the business.