On Wednesday the Ingodinsky district court announces its ruling on Platon Lebedev’s complaint.

The Ingodinsky district court in Chita has adjourned until Wednesday its examination of the complaint by the former head of Group Menatep concerning what he says were the unlawful actions of officials from the prosecutor’s office. As planned, on Tuesday the court heard the arguments of a spokesman from the prosecutor’s office, reports Interfax-Sibir correspondent in Chita.

The prosecutor’s office considers that the arguments of the defence attorneys should not be examined by the court in Chita since the incidents described formed part of the first case, which was heard in the Meshchansky district court in Moscow and where a verdict was pronounced in May 2005.

Platon Lebedev considers that all the incidents are relevant to the new, second case. “It is not just a matter of the falsification of documents,” he said, “but concerns procedural violations committed by the prosecutor’s office.” The plaintiff and his lawyers are petitioning for not only investigator Rusanova to be brought to book but also her superior Salavat Karimov who was then the senior investigator at the Prosecutor General’s office and headed the investigation into both case.

After these representations the court declared an adjournment until Wednesday when it intends to make public its decision.

(Interfax, 4 March 2008)