Head of FBK Legal?s Corporate Parctice, Alexander Ermolenko on the sentence that was imposed on Sergey Shimkevich
Head of FBK Legal’s corporate practice, Alexander Ermolenko in his interview to Gazeta.ru commented upon the news that on Tuesday Dorogimilovsky Court of Moscow sentenced to 13 year imprisonment the ex-manager of YUKOS subsidiary, Tomskneft VNK, Sergey Shimkevich. The ex-manager was recognized to be guilty in stealing about 500 mln. RUR and tax evasion. Apart from the imprisonment Shimkevich will have to pay 1 mln. RUR. As Alexander Ermolenko commented in his interview to Gazeta.ru any court decision in any way associated with “the YUKOS case” is considered as politically biased. “However in this case real violation of law might have been. The amount that the YUKOS subsidiary transferred to represent its interests in court is too large on the region’s scale”, the lawyer presumed.
