Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the international wanted list – RBC

The former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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The fact that the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested in absentia and the international wanted list, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (MRS), Vladimir Markin.

Earlier, Khodorkovsky was convicted in absentia in the murder and the attempted murder of two or more persons. According to investigators, Khodorkovsky, being a shareholder and chairman of Yukos in 1998-1999 instructed his subordinates to Leonid Nevzlin and Alexey Pichugin and others murder of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov and businessman Evgeny Rybin.

«For the investigation it is clear that these crimes were committed with mercenary motives. Arrange the killing Petukhov was decided in connection with its legal requirements of the Nefteyugansk mayor to the Yukos oil company to return hidden from the state taxes. An attack on a businessman Evgeny Rybin was due to the initiated their claims against Yukos to recover the damage caused by illegal activities of the oil company, “- said Markin.

He added that” no matter where lies the accused – in Russia or outside, but at least in Antarctica – we just have to take all legal measures to bring him to justice ».

Correspondence Khodorkovsky’s arrest was confirmed by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. According to Tass court spokesman Juno Tsarev, the term of arrest – two months – will be counted from the moment of actual detention of businessman.

According to an informed source, “Interfax”, the search Khodorkovsky will be carried out in the CIS and in the states with which Russia has signed an agreement vzaimovydache.

Now Khodorkovsky is in the UK, said RBC’s press secretary Külli Pispanen. Between London and Moscow is no agreement on mutual extradition and the only tool for the extradition of wanted Russian citizens – the mechanism of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).

To take advantage of this opportunity, the investigation should contact the National Bureau of Interpol’s Russian Interior Ministry. In Russia, only this structure can initiate wanted by Interpol. The press center of the Interior Ministry has not yet commented on Khodorkovsky wanted.

«Tracing at Interpol is not” – said at the source, “Interfax”. The website of Interpol in the lists of persons wanted by Russia – 160 people. Among them are several defendants in criminal cases around YUKOS: the former deputy chief accountant of YUKOS (formerly British court refused to extradite him) Dmitry Maru, ex-managing the Stavropol branch of the bank “Menatep St. Petersburg” Igor Babenko, chief lawyer Dmitry Gololobov YuKOCa.

Mr Khodorkovsky is not going to take any action after the announcement of its international wanted list, said Pispanen. According to her, the disgraced businessman laughed when he heard about his arrest in absentia. At the moment Khodorkovsky in a criminal case of murder is not even a lawyer, she specified.

The federal search Khodorkovsky was announced on December 8th. Then Pispanen stated that he did not intend to participate in the investigation and to get in touch with Russian investigators. Pispanen also stressed that Jodorowsky believes the charges against him unfounded.

A new criminal case against Khodorkovsky became known on the night of December 8 when he ex-head of Yukos posted on Twitter agenda that brought his father . The agenda stated that Khodorkovsky should report to investigators as a defendant in a criminal case number 18 / 35-03. Later, the source of RBC familiar with the investigation confirmed that the case of the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk.

In the Kremlin, commenting on the new criminal case against Khodorkovsky, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking a decision on clemency businessman no data on its possible involvement in other crimes.

Khodorkovsky himself declared that the agitation against him a new criminal case connected with the necessity of power to “change agenda».

The mayor of Nefteyugansk, Vladimir Petukhov He was shot to death June 26, 1998, the birthday of Khodorkovsky. In 2007, the court convicted on the case of former Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Customer murder court named former Yukos co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, who at that time had moved to Israel.