PETROZAVODSK, Russia - The former head of defunct oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is serving a term in Karelia, will not request release on parole again, his lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant said.
"We are not preparing a request for release on parole. We are not even thinking about it now," Klyuvgant told reporters at the Petrozavodsk railway terminal on his way from Segezha, where he had met with Khodorkovsky.
Klyuvgant said that former deputy director of Yukos’s Foreign Debt Directorate, Vladimir Pereverzin, has been freed "due to the adoption of new criminal code procedures."
"We are happy about this and we congratulate him. He has been freed due to the adoption of new criminal code procedures. If this situation repeats itself regarding Khodorkovsky the court will just follow the letter of the law," the defense lawyer said.
"The latest report released by the Kremlin Human Rights Council suggests that the recent verdict, handed down to Lebedev and Khodorkovsky, is fiction," Klyuvgant said.
"We are not begging for mercy. We insist that the Supreme Court follow the letter of the law," he said.
Reports said earlier that Pereverzin was freed as his term had expired.
