Aug-13-2007

The Swiss Federal Tribunal reverses the Swiss Attorney General’s decision to cooperate with mutual legal assistance treaty requests from Russia in the Khodorkovsky, Nevzlin and Lebedev cases, concluding that the facts “corroborate the suspicion that this criminal proceeding was orchestrated by the powers that be in order to subordinate the class of rich ‘oligarchs’ and do away with potential or sworn political opponents.”