Lebedev Continues His Testimony
Platon Lebedev's testimony continued on Tuesday with the former director of Group MENATP Ltd (GML) confirming the functions of GML's subsidiaries including Yukos Universal Limited (YUL) and Hulley Enterprises Ltd. Confirming his statement yesterday that GML did not receive any money other than dividends and proceeds from YUKOS share sales from its subsidiaries, reiterated that these companies were not involved in crude oil transactions. Additionally, YUL worked with UBS, Morgan Stanley and others, none of which found any example of "money laundering".
Meanwhile, on Monday Judge Danilkin accepted the defense's appeal of his decision to extend Khodorkovsky and Lebedev's arrest until November 17. The appeal will be forwarded to the Moscow City Court for their consideration. Also on Monday, the defense motioned the court to amend entries made in the official trial transcript, known as "the protocol," for dates between October 5 and November 2, 2009. November 2nd remains the last date the court provided official trial transcripts, leaving the defense unable to review the record testimony of the majority of prosecution witnesses as well as the entire defense case up to this point in the trial.