Prosecutors and investigators

Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Bastrykin kept close watch over the investigation into the Yukos case, including the case against Aleksanyan.

Viktor Grin, Deputy General Prosecutor. He gave the green light to initiate the case, insisted that Aleksanyan be detained and took the case to court.

Salavat Karimov, Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General 's Office. He headed the investigation teams in the Aleksanyan case, as well many other such teams. While appear before the Supreme Court in 2008, Aleksanyan said that during the investigation Karimov had personally offered him “freedom in exchange for giving testimony against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev”. Karimov is currently still serves as Prosecutor General Yury Chaika’s aide.

Tatyana Rusanova, Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee; investigator in the investigation team of the Prosecutor General’s office under the Particularly Important Cases Department until 2007; investigator in the investigation team of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee and Junior Justice Aide after 2007. Aleksanyan said that Rusanova made him the same deal that Karimov did: freedom and treatment in exchange for giving testimony against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev.

Radmir Khatypov, Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office and Justice Aide. He lobbied for Aleksanyan’s detainment and proposed him the same deal that Rusanova and Karimov did: treatment in exchange for giving testimony.

Valery Lakhtin, Senior Prosecutor at Section Two for Surveillance of Investigations into Criminal Cases Pursued by the Investigative Committee under the Department for Surveillance of Investigations into Particularly Important Cases at the Prosecutor General’s Office. Lakhtin personally initiated Aleksanyan’s detainment, interrogated him and refused to set him free, all the while fully aware of Aleksanyan’s fatal illnesses.

Nikolai Vlasov, Senior Prosecutor at the State Prosecution Support Section under the Directorate for Securing Prosecutors’ Participation in Criminal Case Examination of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Vlasov was the prosecutor in the Aleksanyan case and insisted on the former’s continued prosecution despite his being gravely ill. When Aleksanyan was finally paroled, Vlasov, having doubted the authenticity of the information on the defendant’s health, dragged out the procedure for dismissing the Aleksanyan case for a year and a half.

Farit Ganiyev, Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Ganiyev prosecuted Aleksanyan and other Yukos employees.

Igor Yurzditsky, Investigator at the Investigation Team of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Yurzditsky prosecuted Aleksanyan and other Yukos employees.

Sergei Markelov, Acting Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. Markelov directly managed the investigation into the Aleksanyan case and other cases against Yukos employees.

Mikhail Tumanov. Senior Investigator for Investigating Particularly Important Cases of the General Prosecutor’s Office. Tumanov headed the investigation into the Aleksanyan case.

Valery Alyshev. Section One Head of Department No. 2 for Investigating Particularly Important Cases of the State Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Alyshev prosecuted Aleksanyan and other Yukos employees.

Aleksandr Iogan, Investigation Team Investigator of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Iogan prosecuted Aleksanyan and others.

E. Lyutov, Senior Prosecutor, Section for Surveillance of Investigations into Particularly Important Cases of the Department for Surveillance of the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Lyutov supported the investigation’s motion in the Basmanny Court on extending Aleksanyan’s detainment period.

Judges

Natalya Dudar, Judge, Basmanny Court of Moscow. Dudar extended Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Andrei Rasnovsky, Judge, Moscow City Court. Rasnovsky dismissed the motion to release Aleksanyan.

Aleksandr Trubnikov, Judge, Basmanny Court. Trubnikov extended Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Elena Yarlykova, Former Judge, Basmanny Court. Yarlykova chose Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Natalya Mushnikova, Judge, Basmanny Court. Mushnikova extended Aleksanyan’s detainment and dismissed the defence’s motions against the investigation’s actions.

N. Kuznetsova, Judge, Moscow City Court. Kuznetsova extended Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Evgeny Naidyonov, Judge, Moscow City Court. As presiding judge of the Moscow City Court Cassation Board in March 2008, Naidyonov refused to change the restriction regime chosen for Aleksanyan, who by that time had not only HIV, but also was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Naidyonov currently serves as the presiding judge of the Presnensky Court in Moscow.

Olga Nedelina, Judge, Simonovsky District Court of Moscow. Nedelina extended Aleksanyan’s detainment, left him on remand while he had been going through treatment in a public hospital and re-opened the suspended case against him. When the case was terminated, she kept all of Aleksanyan’s property confiscated.

Anastasiya Ryzhova, Judge, Moscow City Court. Ryzhova dismissed the appeal to the decree to extend Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Irina Oreshkina, Judge, Simonovsky Court of Moscow. Oreshkina made the decision that Aleksanyan’s actions contained criminal elements and refused to let him be put up in an in-patient clinic.

Tatyana Korneyeva, Judge, Simonovsky Court. Korneyeva extended Aleksanyan’s detainment. Incidentally, she permitted initiating a criminal case against Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Matnitsky.

Vera Pilganova, Judge, Basmanny Court of Moscow. Pilganova extended Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Dmitry Fomin, Judge, Moscow City Court. Fomin extended Aleksanyan’s detainment.

Olga Yegorova, Presiding Judge, Moscow City Court. The defence for former Yukos employees has information showing that Yegorova coordinated the activities of all of Moscow judges meant for the criminal prosecution, detainment, approval of illegal actions by the investigation and conviction of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev, Aleksanyan, Svetlana Bakhmina and other people named in the case.

Jail keepers

Fikret Tagiyev, Head of Pre-Trial Detention Centre (SIZO) 77/1 (Matrosskaya Tishina). During Aleksanyan and Lebedev’s time in the pre-trial detention centre, Tagiyev denied them of medical assistance and made their living conditions in jail worse.

Yury Kalinin, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation during Aleksanyan’s detainment at Matrosskaya Tishina, and then Deputy Minister of Justice. Kalinin knew that Aleksanyan was being refused medical assistance in jail.