Valdes Garcia has been a key figure Yukos case
The Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika confirmed the disappearance of one of the defendants in the case of Yukos-Spanish citizen Antonio Valdez Garcia. His already declared wanted.
reminder, Garcia, a former head of the company “Fargoyl” Yukos affiliate structure. He is accused of complicity in the theft of the sum of 13 billion dollars, which the organizers were allegedly Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.
When the prosecutor asked the court to sentence Valdes Garcia to 11 years imprisonment, he escaped from his guards, According police guarding his order, Garcia locked them in his own apartment, then fled.
Chaika also said that in respect of these militiamen opened proceedings. “Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the police officers that his (witness) protected,” Chaika told. He explained that Valdes fell under the witness protection program and escaped from the apartment where the lived recently. According to the prosecutor general, investigators now ascertain how legitimate citizen of Spain was under the action of the program. However, Chaika noted that Valdez was “not a key witness.”
