Khodorkovsky's defense lawyer's request for files on parole hearings denied
MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Moscow's Preobrazhensky court on Tuesday denied Mikhail Khodorkovsky's defense lawyer Natalya Terekhova the right to read the files dealing with the hearings of the plea for Khodorkovsky's release on parole.
"They claimed that the files will be provided only when hearings are ordered at the Preobrazhensky court," Terekhova said, according to ex-Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky's and his business partner Platon Lebedev's press center.
Khodorkovsky's and Lebedev's relatives remained uninformed as of noon to what prisons they were moved to on Friday, the press center said in a posting on its website.
"I have been to the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility. They told me they did not know, while their boss wasn't in as he was attending a conference. Mikhail Khodorkovsky's wife has left to check whether a letter informing her about where her husband is has arrived by mail," Terekhova said.
"Platon Lebedev's relatives remain in touch with us," defense lawyer Konstantin Rivkin was quoted as saying. No one has information about Lebedev's whereabouts so far, he said.
"The only reliable source is the letters which Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky's wives will receive. The rest is empty guesswork," Rivkin said.
Khodorkovsky's wife Inna was informed on Friday that her husband had been moved from the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility to a prison where he will serve his term.