Grigory Yavlinsky on the sentence of ex Economic Minster Alexei Ulyukayev
“The system does not tolerate common sense”
Grigory Yalvinsky FB page, 15.12.2017
The court sentenced Alexei Ulyukayev, former Minister for Economic Development, to eight years in a maximum security penal colony. The Judge decided that his guilt in obtaining a bribe from Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, was fully proved. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, commented on the verdict on his Facebook page:
“One can be like Boris Nemtsov, or one can be like Alexei Ulyukayev. The outcome is the same. The system is functions like this. It does not tolerate common sense. No way and nowhere. Eight years of a penal colony of a strict regime for the 61-year-old ex-minister – in order to intimidate. There can be no trust to such a court. Not the slightest. Nothing looks proven, the key “witness-organiser” Igor Sechin did not come to court and disappeared from the case. On the theashold [of the trial] Vladimir Putin, publicly justified all this [during his press-conference] and said that “only the court can decide”. That’s our justice. And this is only the beginning.”
Source: https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/posts/1663056650454152
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Human Rights.