MOSCOW, May 29 (RAPSI) – Members of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers’ Council and heads of several regional bar associations have stood bond for lawyer Sergey Yuryev detained as part of a case over 1-billion-ruble embezzlement (over $15 million) from the State Air Traffic Management Corporation (ATM), the Chamber’s press service informs.
Yuryev, the chairman of Moscow's bar association Mezhregion, is an honest and reputable attorney, the statement reads.
One of the lawyer’s bail bondsmen is Chair of the Federal Chamber of Lawyer Yury Pilipenko.
According to the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, attorneys proposed a 1-million-ruble bail to release Yuryev.
Investigators claim that in 2008, the State ATM Corporation signed a contract for legal services with one of the bar associations. The bar chairman working connections in the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) submitted a conclusion with a write-up value of legal services for the completion of tender documentation. The signed agreement has been repeatedly prolonged in violation of the established procedure.
The contract overpricing resulted in unjust receipt of more than 1 billion rubles by the bar association from 2008 to 2018, investigators claim.
A Rosaviatsiya employee involved in the case has been arrested and detained as well.
