Alyaxandar Chigir Pleads Not Guilty 11:17, 01/03/2002
Alyaxandar Chigir, son of the former country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Chigir, doesn’t confess his guilt in alleged selling of stolen car parts. The man said this on Friday, delivering his last speech during the session of the Leninsky court of Minsk.
“Interfax” reports that during court deliberations the prosecution came to realization that Alyaxandar Chigir had never been a leader of the three, nor was he part of the organized criminal band.
The defense notes that “almost all of the evidence on the case have been collected with grave violations of law”. Alyaxandar Chigir was detained by the law-enforcers on February 10 at the car sales market, while selling stole car parts.
In course of court hearings Anton Yashin and Dmitry Yutskevich denied the testimony that they had given previously, which used to prove Chigir’s guilt. They said that all the testimony had been given by them under torture.
Meantime, Yashin is the only defendant who confessed that he knowingly bought a hijacked car. The rest of the suspects claim innocence.
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