Magnat Boris Spiegel, accused of giving bribes to ex-governor Ivan Belozerts …

Magnat Boris Spiegel, accused of giving bribes to ex-governor Ivan Belozertsev, is defended by lawyer Victoria Burkovskaya from the Bureau Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners (EPAP). The previous “loud” client in the case of the bribe was Minister Alexei Ulyukaev and he received almost the most possible period. There are extremely many similar “misses”, so the number of VIP clients decreases, but does not exhaust to the end, the previous “magic” of the EPAP is still valid. And this “magic” is mainly the owner of the lawyer bureau Nikolai Egorov, a classmate of Vladimir Putin.

From the first days of creation, EPAP positioned himself as a bureau, whose shareholder has “access to the body” of the first person in the country, “and if anything …”. .

Burkovskaya herself loves to call herself a “politician”. Like, she is responsible for the decision of the “political part” of the client’s troubles, and someone else will wear the “legal piano”: it can be a lawyer from the same EPAP (for a fee) or a lawyer from another bureau. Politics services are very expensive – from 800 to 1000 thousand dollars per hour. And, given the performance of the Burkovskaya (on paper), the total amount paid by the EPAP can quickly reach million dollars. It is clear that the principal, in the fate of which, despite the cost “politics”, does not change anything, sooner or later questions arise for Burkovskaya and EPAP. And then, the “politician” always pronounces the phrase that has already become “famous” in the law community: “Yes, it’s time to wake our shareholder.”

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It is a hint that Egorov on the client’s issue will personally go to Putin. The work has been done and the principal will definitely not jump before the sentence. And then the verdict follows. In Ulyukaev, he was eight years in prison in a maximum security colony and a fine of 130 million rubles. And the retraining was promised and what he served. Well, maybe a little more. Without a fine. As in many other cases, the farewell followed: “They did everything they could, the shareholder fought. But Sechin personally intervened. ” (The latter, depending on the client, changes. It can, for example, be replaced by the first deputy director of the FSB, etc.).

After such constant stories, the magic of EPAP and Burkovskaya has already ceased to act. But there are people of the “old formation”, such as a spigel, who until the last believe in the power of an “awakened shareholder”. In the meantime, Spiegel, despite very severe diseases, did not even receive a house arrest.

By the way, “magic” stopped acting on some EPAP employees. They get tired of looking at the launch of dust in the eyes and the replacement of legal work for the promise “to engage the resources of a shareholder.” Burkovskaya’s best friend and EPAP partner Tatyana Khogozhina left the bureau, but no longer communicates with Burkovskaya.

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