Lawyers, relatives unaware of destination of Khodorkovsky's transportation
MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - The wife of former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky is trying to find out from the Matrosskaya Tishina prison administration about where her husband will be transported to.
"Khodorkovsky's wife was denied a meeting with him due to preparations for his transportation. She is now trying to obtain information about where he is heading to," Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant told Interfax.
The relatives should have been informed beforehand about where Khodorkovsky will be sent to, he said. "Neither his relatives, nor lawyers have such information, his wife has now filed a written application to obtain at least this information," he said.
The defense does not have any leverage to postpone Khodorkovsky's transportation, he said.
"We link Khodorkovsky's transportation to the prison with the previous actions of the Preobrazhensky court and the detention facility, namely the artificial protraction of the hearing of our client's parole petition," Klyuvgant was quoted as saying on the website of the ex-Yukos chief's lawyers.
"Obviously, everything was done to prevent the petition being heard in Moscow, since there are no lawful grounds for denying the parole, and it is more convenient to break the law away from Moscow with its high media and public attention," Klyuvgant said.
"The fact that the wife of Mikhail Borisovich has been denied a guaranteed lawful visitation and was not informed about the place where he is being sent to serve his sentence, is a gross violation of the law," Klyuvagant was quoted as saying by the website.