Salavat Karimov, as first deputy prosecutor of Bashkortostan in 2006
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YUKOS Investigator Gets Booted Up to Advisor
Senior investigator Gen. Salavat Karimov, who led the Prosecutor General's Office's two investigations of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been fired. Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Prosecutor General's Office's Investigative Committee, did not accept Karimov in his agency. Alexander Drymanov will be the new senior investigator of the YUKOS case.
The investigators Bastyrkin refused to hire cannot be dismissed under the Labor Code. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika has to find them positions worthy of their rank. There was no appropriate position for Karimov, so Chaika made him his advisor.
Yury Shmidt, lawyer for Khodorkovsky, refused to comment on Karimov's fate, but noted that he had previously worked on the case against former Nenets Autonomous Area Governor Alexey Barinov, who was found innocent in court of 13 of the 14 charges against him. Karimov's colleagues mentioned the “excessive politicization” of the YUKOS case, which helped Karimov become close to deputy head of the presidential executive staff Igor Sechin.
Two other investigators who worked on the YUKOS case, Nikolay Atmonyev and Mikhail Bezugly, were among the ten investigators Bastrykin refused to hire. Bezugly interrogated president of YUKOS Moscow and U.S. citizen Steven Theede in 2003, after which he left the country.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 11, 2007
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