In the case of the speaker appeared in the booklet of “Rosneft” and the letter to Putin
In the trial of the ex-economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev the first time since the process has not come to any one of the summoned witnesses for the prosecution, and the Prosecutor’s office decided to devote the meeting to the study of documents.
The materials were read by a few hours, but, according to the defense, none of them did not confirm the position of the prosecution, according to which the speaker allegedly threatened the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin.
The speaker before the meeting only answered to the remark of the journalist saying he is losing weight every day.
“It’s an illusion,” said the former Minister. All other attempts to ask questions of the Minister was stopped by the employees of the FSIN, as Ulyukayev under the terms of house arrest, forbidden to talk to the press.
However, the question whether he will congratulate happy birthday to your lawyer Victoria Burkovskaya, the Minister said that “of course know” about the holiday and gave the Burkovskaya CD with music. Show it to journalists, she did not. “That’s private!” — the lawyer explained.
Protocols and records
In court, in particular, read the protocols of inspection of the bills that were in the bag found in the car of the speaker at the time of his arrest in November last year. A listing of the serial numbers 18 thousand bills took 55 sheets.
According to prosecutors, investigators and experts studied the box of bills January 24, 2017, and passed this process from 10 a.m. in the building of the TFR. The state Prosecutor has described as opened the box with the seals of the FSB, in which lay bills and how they were photographed.
Also, the Prosecutor explained that during investigative actions opened the envelope with the key from the bag with the money and it was checked whether it opens the bag.
In the photographs filed here, there are photos of both bills, and most of the bag. It is brown with blue and white lining.
The court said and how you looked out over the car speaker. According to the Prosecutor, the driver of the former Minister showed investigators how to open the trunk of his BMW (in three ways — with key, button inside and button outside). Inside the car found a white iPad booklet Rosneft and gift set.
Then the Prosecutor read out a few emails regarding the plans of “Rosneft” privatize “Bashneft”, which, according to the investigation, the Minister allegedly threatened to disrupt the event if it does not receive money from the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin.
Among them was a letter to Sechin, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent on 21 July 2016. In it the head of “Rosneft” asked the President to coordinate the participation of his company in the transaction and to give appropriate instructions to the government.
Also read other letters regarding the transaction. In particular, we are talking about the letters of “Rosneft” in the Ministry of economic development and the Ministry of energy, as well as the letter of the speaker to the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
Also in the materials is a letter of behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich dated July 27, 2016, in which he requested to prepare a draft report to the President on privatization of “Bashneft”, based on inexpediency of participation of the companies directly or indirectly controlled by the state.