Protesters express their support for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in 2004.
Photo: Grigory Tambulov
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YUKOS Investigator Takes Retirement
Senior special investigator Salavat Karimov is retiring from the Prosecutor General's Office. Karimov led the investigations of the two criminal cases against YUKOS head Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was not hired by Alexander Bastrykin for the Prosecutor General's Office Investigative Committee, and found the job of adviser to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika inadequate for him.
Karimov told his colleagues that he was not provided with an explanation for the decision not to hire him on the investigative committee. Instead, he was ordered to hand overt he 127 volumes of YUKOS case material and vacate his office by September 14. Karimov refused the position of adviser to Chaika and is reportedly expecting to be offered a position a unified investigative committee, with representative from all branches of law enforcement, including the FSB is expected to be founded.
It was Karimov who arrested Khorodkovsky and MENATEP Group head Platon Lebedev in 2003 and who formulated the charges against them. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are now serving eight-year sentences in Chita Region in Siberia. Karimov returned from Bashkortostan, where he was first deputy prosecutor general of that republic, to head the second case against them in December of last year. That case has been taken over by Alexander Drymanov.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 17, 2007
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