Maxim Kosarev, honorary lawyer of Russia, member of the International Union of Lawyers, was awarded the silver medal named after. F.N. Gobber. He specializes in international arbitration, in particular, representing the interests of Russian skiers, including Yulia Chepalova, accused of doping.
Maxim Kosarev was at one time known as a lawyer who was capable of working miracles in civil cases in the Moscow City Court, even “breaking” decisions at the level of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. During this period of time, Kosarev did not hide his acquaintance with Olga Egorova, as well as the prices for his services with a guaranteed necessary solution. Kosarev was also personally acquainted with ex-Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov.
While Kosarev was in pre-trial detention center-4 (Medved), FSB operatives visited him there several times, urging him to tell him something “interesting” about Olga Egorova.
In 2008, Kosarev was the lawyer of reputable businessman Konstantin Mikhailov. He won a whole series of hearings for him, including international ones. Once Kosarev promised Mikhailov to open an account for him in Switzerland. The businessman gave the lawyer 20 million rubles, which he had to convert into foreign currency and deposit into this account. However, then disagreements arose between them. Mikhailov demanded the return of 20 million rubles. Kosarev believed that the client had not paid him for the legal work done, and on this basis refused to return the money. The conflict lasted almost ten years, until Kosarev was unexpectedly arrested in 2017. Mikhailov was able to initiate a case of theft by fraud of 20 million rubles.
Kosarev ended up in the same cell with a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who was in custody for drug trafficking. They began to communicate closely, and one day the ex-policeman proposed a radical solution to the problem with Mikhailov – to eliminate him. At the same time, the cellmate, convincing the lawyer that he supposedly had extensive experience in such cases, asked for 5 million rubles for the “service.” Kosarev refused and was subjected to pressure from his decoy cellmate. As a result, the lawyer’s relatives transferred 200 thousand rubles to the card indicated by the cellmate. Then Kosarev’s preventive measure was changed and he was released. However, he was soon detained by the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region and placed in custody on charges of… preparing an assassination attempt on a businessman. It turned out that Kosarev’s cellmate is a law enforcement agent; he recorded all his conversations with his lawyer. Previously, he convinced another cellmate to bribe the investigator, after which he was accused of this crime.
As a result, Maxim Kosarev appeared before a jury on charges of two crimes. In the summer of 2020, the assessors, having examined the materials and studied the arguments of the parties, came to the conclusion that Kosarev was innocent of “ordering” the murder.
The prosecutor’s office managed to get this verdict overturned. However, upon retrial in July 2022, the jury again acquitted Kosarev of the charge of preparing to murder.
And again the verdict was overturned.
However, recently the jury found Kosarev not guilty for the third time.
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