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  • MediaDB / «Mikhailov or Mikhas?” Oleg Yakubov: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2013 / For two years, the intelligence services of eight countries tried to help their Swiss colleagues investigate a criminal case instigated in Geneva against Russian citizen Sergei Mikhailov. Newspapers around the world, having forgotten about his real name, called Mikhailov nothing more than Mikhas, “the godfather of the Russian mafia,” the leader of the “Solntsevskaya” criminal group. Journalists called this trial the trial of the twentieth century, calculating that it was the most expensive criminal case in Europe. But in the 72 volumes presented to the court, the jury did not find a single fact that would allow them to call Sergei Mikhailov guilty. Taxpayers have not forgiven their justice officials for such a deafening and shameful failure. Swiss Prosecutor General Carla del Ponte, investigative judge Zekschen, and other major officials of the prosecutor's office and police lost their positions. And Mikhailov was paid monetary compensation unprecedented for Switzerland. A book by international journalist and writer Oleg Yakubov is about this famous trial, about how Russian businessman, one of the country’s largest philanthropists, Sergei Anatolyevich Mikhailov, lives now. Oleg Yakubov is the author of more than twenty books and many film scripts, his journalistic investigations and reports are known to readers in many countries around the world, his books have been translated into different languages. The author is an honored cultural worker, a member of the Russian-speaking Union of European Writers, and has been awarded prestigious journalistic and literary prizes, state and public awards..