Novaya Gazeta came up with, and Dissernet carried out, a simple but very revealing exercise.
They simply checked the verdict in the Yves Rocher case for plagiarism.
A judge is not only supposed to write the verdict personally; they are also supposed to assess the evidence, study the case materials, and so on. Since Judge Korobchenko “wrote” the verdict in six calendar days (which works out to 80,000 characters a day), it was fairly obvious that she had simply copied someone else’s text.
A plagiarism check comparing the indictment, cobbled together by Bastrykin’s people at the Investigative Committee, and the verdict of Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court found textual matches on 207 of 234 pages.
Roughly speaking, Judge Korobchenko just took the text of the indictment, slapped a few extra pages onto the descriptive section (she removed the really absurd stuff about a “fake enterprise” and simply wrote that the activity was inherently criminal because it was intermediary in nature), and that was that.
What a wonderful justice system we have.