Khodorkovsky's, Lebedev's lawyers expect FSSP to account for seized Yukos shares
MOSCOW. Aug 11 (Interfax) - The lawyers of former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev expect the Russian Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) to clarify the destiny of seized Yukos shares.
"They [bailiffs] should confirm that they really received the Meshchansky court ruling ordering the confiscation of the controlling block of Yukos shares, which they were obliged to implement. The documents I have give no indication whatsoever of the existence of the above share parcel in the depths of FSSP. Let them sort it out," Lebedev's lawyer Konstatin Rivkin has told Interfax.
He expressed hope for an objective FSSP inquiry.
The defense have all documentary records of the events prior to the 2007 court ruling, the lawyer said.
"One thing that is not clear is what the bailiffs did to those shares after the 2007 ruling. The court stated that the controlling block of Yukos shares was recovered from Khodorkovsky and Lebedev and used to reimburse the damages," Rivkin said.
FSSP chief Artur Parfenchikov told a press conference on Thursday that his agency had launched an inquiry into the implementation of a court order to recover 404 billion rubles worth of Yukos shares.
Earlier, Rivkin said that the real value of the aforementioned shares exceeded the sum subject to recovery by several times.
"From the documents I obtained from the Meshchyansky court, it follows that the shares confiscated from Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in October 2003 amounted to 404 billion rubles," Rivkin told Interfax earlier.
Earlier, an FSSP spokesman told Interfax that the FSSP had recovered 132 million rubles from Khodorkovsky and Lebedev of the 17 billion rubles subject to recovery under the first verdict.
In 2005, the bailiffs were to recover 17 billion, 395 million, 449 thousand rubles from Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in favor of the state, plus unpaid income taxes worth 124 million rubles from Khodorkovsky and nearly 13 million rubles from Lebedev.
On July 27, the Velsk Disrict Court of the Arkhangelsk region refused to grant Lebedev parole.
The Moscow City Court cut the prison term of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev from 14 to 13 years on May 24. The prison term starts from 2003, when they were arrested in the first Yukos case. The release date is 2016. The defense appealed to the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. The former Yukos executives were transferred from Matrosskaya Tishina to their penitentiaries on June 10. Khodorkovsky was taken to the seventh penitentiary in Segezh in Karelia on June 17. Lebedev was sent to the Velsk penitentiary in the Arkhangelsk region.
