Of course, I am satisfied with the verdict right now, and
I believe the victory is ours, and this is
a precedent that will have far-reaching
consequences in the future.
What
will you be filing?
It’s just that there are people here too.
It has not yet entered into legal force; it will
be appealed, and accordingly it cannot
serve as grounds, logically, for
choosing or changing a preventive measure.
I would like to say to my family
exclusively through my lawyers, because
I am only allowed to communicate with them, which
it is clear that today’s decision is very
strange, and this United Russia (the ruling political party) junkie
is costing all of us suspiciously dearly.
But it is absolutely clear to me that this is simply
yet another step aimed at
trying to drive us into some corner. This
is forbidden, that is forbidden—they put me under house
arrest, but recordings still keep appearing,
there are fines over recordings at night, and so on.
So I would like to tell you, and through
you tell everyone, that if someone thinks
that this United Russia junkie, or anyone else,
can make the Anti-Corruption Foundation or me or us
stop publishing investigations,
that is not going to happen. In the near future we
will, incidentally, publish a couple more
investigations. We will not stop our work,
and we will not stay silent about
anything; among other things, we will not
stay silent about what was done to Oleg today.
Today we have already published documents that
clearly show that this case
is completely fabricated. The company Yves
Rocher itself stated that there was no damage,
no claims whatsoever. Nevertheless, the case
continues, even after this statement
by Yves Rocher. I have nothing more to say to the judges
for now, but still, I think we will
say something. That is essentially all I
wanted to tell you, my dear lawyers.
Thank you very much to everyone who supports me.
Please pass on my great thanks
to everyone who supports me, of course.
We will definitely appeal all of these
decisions, because after the victory
of the forces of good, we will overturn all these decisions, and
we will punish all the judges. Thank you.
Anyone who is involved in the kind of work
that I and my colleagues at the Anti-Corruption Foundation
are engaged in—they
must unfortunately, in the conditions of
Russia, be prepared for the fact that they may
end up in custody. There is nothing
unusual about that; it is not some amusing part of our
work.
But nevertheless,
this verdict records the fact that he
went online on March 5, and
theoretically they can ask to change
the preventive measure; the grounds and basis of an already entered-into-force
verdict can be used to change the preventive measure
within the framework of the Yves Rocher case and the Kirovles case.
A review in the Kirovles case cannot be
carried out, but the inspectorate can file
a motion to replace a suspended sentence with a real one,
that is, there the punishment is in the Kirovles case, while
here it is a preventive measure.