Investigative Committee officers have searched the homes of employees of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s pro-democracy Open Russia initiative, and of his press secretary Kulle Pispanen, the organization’s website reported Tuesday.
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The Investigative Committee’s spokesman, Vladimir Markin, told the state-run TASS news service that the raids on Tuesday were in connection with a 2003 criminal case involving Yukos.
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Earlier this month, Russian police said they had uncovered evidence suggesting Khodorkovsky had ordered the 1998 contract killing of the mayor of an oil-producing town in Siberia and wanted him to stand trial for the alleged crime.
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Polina Nemirovskaya, Open Russia movement activist: “Since about 6.30 a.m. the investigators started to come into the apartments of the members of Open Russia movement”.
Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 after he fell out with Putin.
Since then, Khodorkovsky has continued to oppose the Kremlin from exile in Europe.
The committee said it is also checking the information provided in a Paris appeals court last week by shareholders of now-bankrupt Yukos, who want Russia to cover their losses and convinced the court to back the freezing of Russian assets in France.
“Everyone who works with Open Russia was aware from the very beginning that such pressure not only was possible but inevitable”, Mr Khodorkovsky said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio.
Khodorkovsky responded on Twitter to the latest raids.
Mikhail Roskin, a 24-year-old Open Russia employee based in Saint Petersburg, said investigators searched the apartment of his relatives.
He was also charged with the attempted murder of two other men. He was later convicted of tax evasion and fraud in a trial he always said was politically-motivated.
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He has slammed Putin’s system and said he was ready, if called upon, to lead Russian Federation in times of crisis.
