Oboronservice suspect Vasilyeva placed under house arrest defends her constitutional right for employment
MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - The main suspect in the Oboronservice case, Yevgenia Vasilyeva, said she has the constitutional right to defense, including via mass media outlets, and for employment.
"I did not say a word about this criminal case," Khasan Borokov, lawyer for the former high-level official of the Russian Defense Ministry, quoted his client as saying.
This was Vasilyeva's response to allegations on the PR attack made by Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin. "The statements that I engaged in PR during the investigation are not true. Though, even if this was true, no one has cancelled the constitutional right for competiveness of the sides in our country yet," she said.
"The right to labor is a constitutional right of a person and citizen. According to the Constitution, Article 37, I can dispose freely my abilities for labor and choose the type of work," Vasilyeva said.
Vasilyeva has committed a number of serious and criminally punishable steps listed in the criminal case materials, Markin has said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. "It concerns organizing taking witnesses, who could describe her illegal activities, from Moscow to various Russian regions," the spokesman said.
The court, when ruling on extending house arrest, dismissed all complaints by Vasilyeva to investigators and recognized them to be groundless.
Investigators have gathered serious evidence, received expert opinions, witness testimony and other materials proving Vasilyeva's guilt, Markin said when commenting about Vasilyeva's claims that all the deals on Defense Ministry's property were legal.
