At the initiative of the prosecution, three witnesses were interrogated from among the employees of PAO Aeroflot: Deputy Director of the Law Department of Karelskaya-Zotov, head of one of the departments of the legal department of Morozov, Deputy Director of the Law Department Zholudev.
Karelskaya-Zotova said to the prosecution and defense that from January 2018 to recently she was the director of the legal department of the airline. At the time of appointment to the position, contracts for the provision of legal assistance with a lawyer Kibetz were already concluded, so she does not know how they were concluded. With her, the lawyer Kibetz and the last lawyer Slivko’s last for work performed their duties in full until the moment of their detention. This work was paid (recall that the theft period for unknown reasons is limited by January 2018). There were no complaints about the quality and volume of paid work. The work of lawyers characterizes as qualified. This work could not be carried out by the legal department. The practice of assigning work to external legal consultants was generally accepted for the airline for many years. Lawyers (not only Kibetz and Slivko) entrusted complex and important cases. The witness does not have data on the cost of the cost. A decrease in the volume of work that was entrusted to lawyers was associated with the general optimization of expenses throughout the airline, and not by a personal decision in relation to specific lawyers. The scope of instructions to other lawyers also decreased. By the time of a decrease in the number of instructions, lawyers developed a strategy and algorithm of work in specific cases, which in a certain part in respect of more typical instructions could be carried out by employees of the legal department. Aleksandrov did not show any personal interest in the work of these lawyers, he did not give illegal instructions on the overestimation of the volume of payment. Consulting, analytical services, participation in meetings under the terms of the contract should have been paid. So it was started when interacting with all external legal consultants.
Witness Morozova showed that since the conclusion of the contract with a lawyer Kibetz, she interacted with the latter, as she oversaw the block of claims. The witness described the work of a lawyer as follows: this is a high -level professional. There were no complaints. The volume of paid work was checked, there is no survey data. The work was not a typical nature, demanded large time costs. The forces of the legal department were problematic to cope taking into account the workload of employees, the value of work for the airline. The decision to attract a lawyer Kibez was brought to her by its head of the Georgian Department. How it was accepted, does not know. He called the cost of services. This cost was comparable to the cost of the services of other lawyers who worked for the airline. Lawyers won all the affairs, the quality of the work was very high. Such a work that is paid to lawyers is done by internal forces is unknown to her. Employees of the legal department could go to processes with Kibetz, but in the order of help and control. The position was formed by lawyers, conducting as lawyers the case on their own.
Witness Zholudev gave testimony similar to Morozova, amazing those present with his calmness and confidence. According to the testimony of Zholudev, he is confident in the fullness of work paid by lawyers in terms of arbitration cases (the witness did not supervise the work on criminal cases).
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