Every year, the Russian judicial system...
Khodorkovsky cases, has himself been imprisoned.On the basis of a jury verdict in June 2009, the Moscow City Court found Dmitry Dovgy, the former head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Federation Public Prosecutor’s Office, guilty of accepting a 750,000-euro bribe and abusing his authority.
Now the former investigator faces nine years in a maximum security prison if, of course, the Russian Supreme Court does not hand down a different ruling on Dovgy’s petition in the trial, which has been postponed until mid-January.
It was intriguing that Dovgy’s crimes were uncovered right after he gave an interview to State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinstein for the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, in which he said that in his opinion, Investigative Committee employees are engaged in the unlawful persecution of certain citizens. Dovgy gave the interview as a former employee of the agency and he was detained
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