Klyuvgant: Putin Using Fear Mongering About Blood to Cover Up Disgraceful Collapse of YUKOS Case
Lead Khodorkovsky lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant gave an interview to Radio France International where his addressed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent comments on Khodorkovsky at the Valdai Club and the investigation conducted by The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal into PwC's YUKOS audit withdrawal.
Regarding Putin's comments, Klyuvgant notes: "From the legal point of view I can say one thing...[Putin] had declared that this is a court case. But the court case that exists, it is about how they stole 350 million tons of oil. And nothing is said there about any blood. And now on the topic of how they stole 350 million tons of oil at the time when Vladimir Putin was prime minister, and then president of the RF, he for some reason obstinately says nothing."
On PwC, he adds: "The withdrawal, from our point of view, is completely unintelligible, not based on anything. And, besides that, this company itself, as is rightly noted in the article, was still standing behind its reports as late as 2007, although what is being spoken of there is events much earlier than that."