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Criminal proceedings launched into attempt to bribe a witness over Budanov’s murder case

Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against the lawyer of lawyers bureau Musayev and Partners Darya Trenina suspected of bribing a witness in the case over murder of Yuri Budanov (article 309 of the RF Criminal Code).

According to investigators in January 2013 the Temerkhanov’s lawyer Darya Trenina called the witness Alexander Yevtukhov and offered to meet and discuss his testimonies in the court. Yevtukhov agreed and the lawyer arrived in Novosibirsk, where the witness lives, and met with him in a hotel. Trenina offered Yevtukhov to state confidently in the court that the killer had blonde hair. For that Trenina promised Yevtukhov to pay for his trip to Moscow and back and 100 thousand rubles more. Yevtukhov agreed and Trenina at once in one of Novosibirsk banks transferred 50 thousand rubles to Yevtukhov’s bank card and 50 thousand rubles more when arrived in Moscow.

All this information has been procedurally checked and confirmed including the transcript of Yevtukhov’s interrogation made using video recording devices, the video records seized from surveillance cameras in banks and airports in Moscow and Siberia as well as by bank documents and other materials.

During the investigation all lawyers taking part in Temerkhanov’s defense will be questioned, including Murad Musayev.

The allegations of the lawyers that Yevtukhov was abducted and pressed by the prosecution are not rue as Yevtukhov said that he had not been away, but had just change his phone number in order not to talk with the lawyers. Due to the fact that Yevtuchov declared that lawyers were pressing him, he is provided with state protection.