Russian Lawmaker Kerimov's Lawyer To Appeal France's Tax Evasion Charge - Assistant
Umer Jamshaid Published March 20, 2019 | 05:10 PM
The lawyer of Suleyman Kerimov, a member of Russia's upper house of parliament, will appeal the "illegal and baseless" tax evasion complicity charge that France has made against his client, the parliamentarian's assistant, Aleksei Krasovsky, told Sputnik on Wednesday
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th March, 2019) The lawyer of Suleyman Kerimov, a member of Russia's upper house of parliament, will appeal the "illegal and baseless" tax evasion complicity charge that France has made against his client, the parliamentarian's assistant, Aleksei Krasovsky, told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Jean-Michel Pretre, the prosecutor of the French city of Nice, told Sputnik that Kerimov was charged with complicity in tax evasion.
"The lawyer will appeal this illegal and baseless charge," Krasovsky said.
He added that Kerimov was currently in the Russian capital and working, not in France.
In November 2017, Kerimov was detained in Nice on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. The prosecution claimed that he had purchased real estate in the French Riviera under fake Names in order to launder money, and that he had also illegally imported money to France. He was released on bail in the amount of 5 million Euros ($5.6 million) in November 2017 but had to remain in the southeastern French department of Alpes-Maritimes. The following month, an appeals court ruled to increase the bail to 40 million euros. Kerimov returned to Russia in July 2018 after the charges were dropped.
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