'A wretched man': Efremov's lawyer criticized the artist after the verdict
'25.10.2020'
Source: Газета.ру
Lawyer Elman Pashayev called his former client Mikhail Efremov a pitiful person on the day he was announced a new verdict in the case of a fatal accident. After the dismissal of the lawyer, the actor accused the ex-defenseNika in pressure, and at the last meeting he said that Pashayev once hit him, writes "Gazeta.ru".
On October 22, the Moscow City Court changed the sentence to Mikhail Efremov. In September, the honored artist of Russia was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony as the culprit of an accident that resulted in the death of the driver of the van, Sergei Zakharov. Subsequently, the actor appealed against the decision of the Presnensky court, finally pleading guilty to the fatal accident and asking to change the sentence to a suspended sentence. However, the Moscow City Court, having considered the complaint, reduced it by only six months - Now the star of "Sovremennik" will have to spend 7,5 years in prison, minus what he served in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest.
At the same time, both before the decisive session and during the trial, the artist accused his former lawyer Elman Pashayev of pressure, whom he fired after the eight-year sentence was announced. In addition, speaking in the Moscow City Court on Thursday, Efremov assured that the lawyer himself contacted his director, and then persuaded him to withdraw his confession, promising to obtain an acquittal.
“When in court Dobrovinsky (the lawyer of the Zakharov family -“ Gazeta.Ru ”) asked me:“ Do you agree with Pashayev on everything? ” - Elman kicked me under the table. And I said, "Yes." He was still charming. Constantly lied to me, ”added the actor.
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However, Pashayev himself, commenting on the words of the ex-client, only laughed at Efremov: "He did not go to the doctor when I hit him?" He also called the convicted artist "a wretched person", although he had repeatedly expressed his support for him.
“I know everything. The lawyers promised him that if he turned me over, he would receive a suspended sentence. Now you see the real time. This is the position of lawyers, - Pashayev is quoted by NSN. - He's a weak man. He always lived in good conditions, did not know any problems. Then he ends up in an isolation ward ... What can I say. A man sits behind bars, and then he talks over his ears. He must be released at any cost - even to substitute, even to step over the corpse.
According to the lawyer, while working with Efremov, he acted exactly as the actor himself asked him. In addition, the lawyer stated that there were many "enemies" around him during the trial.
“During my speeches, there were always his people in the courtroom, who coordinated everything. Every step I took was coordinated. Six lawyers worked behind my back. I have never seen them. I repeatedly asked them to meet with me, but never did. There were so many enemies around me, you can't imagine. If something went wrong, he would be immediately informed. They followed my every step: where I went, what interviews I gave, what I said. They coordinated my every step, "Pashayev concluded.
Soon after the Moscow City Court announced a new sentence to Efremov, the deputy chairman of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission, Nikolai Zuev, suggested that the artist would serve his sentence in a general regime colony near Moscow or in the economic brigade of the capital's pre-trial detention center. However, the final decision on this issue will be made by the FSIN.
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“The practice is that today they try not to send a convict far from the region where his relatives live. Most likely, Efremov will be sent to one of the general regime colonies in the Moscow region, in the Central Federal District, or he will be left in the economic unit of one of the capital's pre-trial detention centers, ”TASS said.
