Moscow City Bar Association Condemns the Persecution of the Hermitage Fund Lawyers Who Had Exposed Corruption, Calls Upon General Prosecutor to Open a Criminal Case Against Responsible Officials

July 5, 2010

The Moscow City Bar Asso­ci­a­tion has con­demned the sys­tem­at­ic per­se­cu­tion of Russ­ian lawyers of the Her­mitage Fund who had report­ed state offi­cials involved in the theft of $230 mil­lion of bud­get funds and has called upon the Russ­ian Gen­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor Yuri Chai­ka to open a crim­i­nal case against those offi­cials. The peti­tion is signed by Gen­ri Reznik, head of the Moscow City Bar Asso­ci­a­tion, and Robert Zinoviev, Head of the Com­mis­sion for the Sup­port of the Pro­fes­sion­al and Social Rights of Lawyers (see text in Russ­ian at: http://www.advokatymoscow.ru/legal_regulation/apm_dokuments/zashita_advokatov_doc/hayretdinov/to_chayka.php). Read more

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