Advocacy of Ural Rakhimov prefers General Procurator’s Office to court

Yesterday, the advocacy of son of the former president of Bashkiria Ural Rakhimov recalled its complaint, in which it claimed to invalidate a criminal case initiated against him, from the Basmanny court. As the court didn’t appoint the complaint for review for nearly a month, the advocacy believes that it will receive more quick results in the prosecutor's office. The latter, we recall, switched the trial around a controlling stake of Bashneft to the arbitration plane, stated a claim for the recovery of them from AFK Sistema to the state.

At the yesterday's meeting of the Basmanny Court, where a complaint of lawyer Ayrat Latypov on illegality and invalidity of the criminal case against Ural Rakhimov, initiated on April 28th this year, was to be considered, the advocacy immediately questioned the authority of a representative of the investigating committee, who was in the court. The lawyer stated to the judge Arthur Karpov that he doubted in the authority of the investigator and that he was a member of the investigative team. "I haven’t seen his name in the materials submitted to the court, and the materials themselves are not enough to consider our complaint," - said Mr. Latypov. According to him, the advocacy doesn’t know, if the timeline of the investigation were extended, and he suggested the investigator to submit such order to the advocacy and the court if it was available. According to the lawyer, the investigation didn’t provide the arguments, which caused the criminal case against Ural Rakhimov, to the court. Meanwhile, on August 23, the former head of Bashneft was involved as a defendant and included into the federal wanted list. "We don’t know whether Alexei Veseliev (head of the investigation team) had a right to select and open a criminal case and to accept it for processing," - said Latypov, hinted that all this was to be duly documented, and the advocacy should acquaint with the documents.