Moscow court rules to keep YUKOS ex-security chief under arrest

The Moscow City Court on Thursday ruled to keep in custody the former head of the economic security department of the YUKOS oil giant, Alexei Pichugin.

Thus, the court turned down the appeal filed by the defendant’s lawyers, Pichugin’s lawyer Mikhail Zhidkov told Itar-Tass.

In the view of lawyers, the judge did not consider the issue of extension of the term of the defendant’s confinement in a separate judicial examination, as it is stipulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure.

According to the lawyers, the judge, while announcing preliminary hearings, with a stroke of the pen just ruled to keep Pichugin in custody.


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