Russia asks Spain for the extradition of figures affairs Yukos.

SyuzhetyVtoroe Khodorkovsky case and Lebedeva25.05.2009Hodorkovsky complained of telephone advokatovRossiyskaya prosecutor's office has begun to prepare an extradition request from Spain, a citizen of that country, Antonio Valdez-Garcia, who is one of the figures of cases involving with the alleged theft of oil in Yukos. As reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a lawyer of Spanish businessman Roman Karpinsky, in connection with the preparation of the request began in November 2008, the trial against Valdez-Garcia suspended indefinitely.
According to the investigation, Valdes-Garcia was led by controlled Yukos company Fargoyl, speaking in the role of a fictitious owner and buyer of oil. He is charged that he bought oil on the lower price from the oil companies' Samaraneftegaz, Yuganskneftegaz and Tomskneft-VNK and resold it at higher.
Earlier, on similar charges were sentenced to lengthy prison director OOO Ratibor Vladimir Malakhovsky and deputy director of Directorate of foreign debt Yukos, Vladimir Pereverzin. Overall, according to the Prosecutor General, convicted, and Valdes-Garcia took part in the theft of crude oil worth about 13 billion dollars.
In 2005, the Spaniard came in Russia, agreeing to become a witness in the case of Yukos, in exchange for exemption from criminal prosecution. However, the prosecutor asked him to 11 years imprisonment, and in January 2007, Valdes-Garcia fled from the police secured the apartment. In connection with the escape, he was declared wanted.
In the course of the second case, Khodorkovsky / Lebedev's lawyers accused briefed the participants of the meeting, a statement Valdez-Garcia to the prosecutor general of Russia. In this document, the Spaniard asked to bring a criminal case against the investigators, who allegedly forced him to specify heads Yukos, in particular, to testify about what they have developed schemes to theft.
Former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of MFIs "Menatep" Platon Lebedev are accused of stealing crude oil and equities amounting to almost 900 billion rubles. Previously they had been convicted of financial fraud for eight years in prison.