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Drawing by Pavel Shevelev, April 22, 2010
…There were several vacant seats in the Khamovniki Court
on Lenin’s birthday, April 22. Probably no sensations were
expected and the rush around the first days of Khodorkovsky’s
speech somewhat subsided. Prosecutors also worked half-steam:
only [Prosecutor] Kovalikhina looked after Prosecutor Lakhtin.
For three days Khodorkovsky was comparing the real development
of the company with the bandit slang of the prosecutors. What
the investigators called “criminal schemes” all the world
has been learning in business school and paying high fees
for that and also reading in the Economics textbooks, i.e.
the entire world but for the prosecutors.
Today Khodorkovsky has passed to the concluding part of his
evidence. [Judge] Danilkin (our gratitude to him) has been
extinguishing Lakhtin’s fits of anger and virtually did not
allow the latter to interrupt the speech of the accused. For
three days Khodorkovsky was telling how the YUKOS company
had been growing. Obviously, even the most inattentive prosecutor
had to realise that such a company could not be stolen or
ousted from the market.
...A year ago in the same hall No 7 Khodorkovsky was not
allowed to speak on the charges set against him. He warned,
“ I shall not speak about politics, only on the essence of
the matter and on unlawful corruption motivated actions by
the opponents, so that their corruptive long and bare ears
would stick out of in their disgraceful bareness.” Khodorkovsky
will probably do this in the third part of his evidence (from
pravdambk.ru).
On May 4, 2009, Grigory Yavlinsky was also present in the
trial on the second case of Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
in the Khamovniki Court.
See also:
the
original
The
YUKOS case
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