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Russia: Ruling on Oil Company
JUSTIÇA NO EXTERIOR •
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) • INTERNATIONAL • 20/9/2011
By MICHAEL SCH-
WIRTZ
Both sides in the convoluted
legal battle over Mikhail B.
Khodorkovsky’s nowdefunct
Yukos Oil were claiming
victory on Tuesday
after the European Court of
human rights ruled that
Russia had violated the rights
of company representatives
to a fair trial, but failed to
find evidence that Russian
authorities had intentionally
misused legal proceedings to
bankrupt and dismantle the
company. Yukos representatives
had accused the Russian
government of applying tax
laws selectively in an effort
to assume control of the
company after Mr. Khodorkovsky
was arrested in 2003.
JUSTIÇA NO EXTERIOR •
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) • NEW YORK • 20/9/2011
Lawyer for Man in Bomb Plot Sees No Conflict in Work for Undercover
Detective
By JOHN ELIGON
One of the lawyers representing
a Queens man accused
of plotting to blow up a synagogue
also briefly represented
the undercover detective
who helped bring the
case against the man.
But the lawyer, Lamis J. Deek,
whose client Ahmed Ferhani,
26, is facing state terrorism
charges, said on Tuesday
that her brief representation
of the detective did not
present a conflict of interest
because there were no privileged
conversations between
them.
The detective, identified in a
letter from Manhattan prosecutors
as UC 242, was issued
a disorderly conduct summons
on Sept. 11, 2010, during
a protest over the construction
of an Islamic cultural
center near ground zero. The
detective, who went by the
alias Ilter Ayturk, had embedded
himself with supporters
of the center, Ms. Deek
said. The summons stated
that he had failed to obey a
police officer’s orders to leave
a sidewalk, Ms. Deek
said.
Ms. Deek is known for working
on civil rights claims,
and she said the detective
had come to her for representation.
Each time she met
with him, she said, at least
three other activists who witnessed
the encounter between
the detective and the police
officer were present. There
was no retainer agreement,
Ms. Deek said, and she was
never paid for her representation.
She appeared in court with
the detective, and the case
was dismissed because the
arresting officer never showed
up, she said.
“There was no conflict of
interest,” Ms. Deek wrote in
an e-mail, “and there existed
between UC 242 and I no
attorney-client privilege.”
She said Mr. Ferhani had
known of her representation
of the detective before retaining
her.
The prosecution raised the
issue on Tuesday in State
Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Although prosecutors did
not request that Ms. Deek
stop representing Mr. Ferhani,
they said they wanted to
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