Every year, the Russian judicial system...
1, 2010.The former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina has been freed. She was arrested in 2004 and sentenced in 2006 to six and a half years imprisonment. In spring 2009, in accordance with the ruling by Moscow’s Preobrazhensky Court, Bakhmina was paroled. This was Bakhmina’s fourth attempt to get parole, her petitions to her local courts yielded no results and it was only the court in Moscow that ruled she has served enough of her sentence.
In addition, investigators released the former head of Arbat Prestizh Vladimir Nekrasov and the businessman Sergei Schneider (Semyon Mogilevich) from Matrosskaya Tishina remand prison. The two men were accused of tax evasion. The trial in the case is currently underway in Moscow’s Tushinsky Court and the sentence is expected in the spring of 2010. Regardless of the verdict, Nekrasov intends to return to the cosmetics business, so even if Arbat Prestizh is not resurrected, another perfume giant could emerge.