02 March, 2012

Another quote....

Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky: One Man’s Truth, Another Man’s Tyranny | Politics | Vanity Fair: Pavel Ivlev, a tax lawyer employed by a law firm independent of Yukos, described how the case was put together. “They would call Yukos employees in for questioning, and I went as their attorney,” he told me. “On November 16, the lead detective in the case said to me, ‘Now I am going to interrogate you.’ I said, ‘You can’t do that, it’s against the law.’ ‘I guess we are going to have to break the law then. Tell me all.’ ‘What do you want me to say?’ ‘You are a lawyer—you know the penal code. Whatever you say, we’ll use.’ ‘You want me to describe how we took sacks of cash out of Yukos and delivered them to Khodorkovsky personally?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But nothing like that ever happened.’ That was when he threatened to arrest me.