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“It’s unjust to blame Russia for jailing those who have stolen billions” – Putin
Published: 27 November, 2009, 17:35
Edited: 29 November, 2009, 19:06
TAGS: Putin, Russia, Europe, Human rights, Law
During his official visit to France, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin not only discussed some business issues, but also touched upon the high-profile cases of Khodorkovsky and Magnitsky.
“It is unjust to blame Russia for jailing people who have stolen billions of dollars,” said Putin, while answering journalists’ questions about respect for human rights in Russia.
When he was questioned about the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky he said:
“Mr. Madoff received a life sentence. And nobody even sneezed about that. Everyone said – he deserved it. Now the UK is considering the extradition of a hacker who caused just a million dollars in damage. In the US he is facing up to 60 years in prison. Why are you not asking about him? And some people in Russia that you have mentioned stole billions of dollars! And there are proven murder attempts during their so-called business activities. In the thirties, Al Capone was tried for tax evasion. And he was sentenced within the law. What we are doing is also done within the law.”
The prime minister marked that all the judicial trials are in accord with the present legal system in the country:
“All that is happening is happening in terms of present lawmaking in the Russian Federation. Of course, we will always be watching the government, especially law-enforcement agencies, to be on the right side of the law.”
Vladimir Putin refused to comment on Sergey Magnitsky – the Hermitage Capital Investment tax adviser who died in prison – as he said he did not know all the details of the case, but said it was a tragedy. He said that it does not matter what a person has done – his life, health should always be under the government’s care.
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November 28, 2009, 06:40, boomerang wrote > If there is any way these crooks can be given multiple life sentences so they cannot ever get out of prison it serves them right That would help protect citizens from future scams by the same perpetrators. It would also be a good gesture for the Russian people who had to go hungry while the thieves were stealing billions. Also, it would be a good idea to track down the money they moved out of country and seize it and property outside the country. Good luck and may justice move swiftly. In the same vein (same guys different color ties) What about the boys that held a noose around russia's neck for the last eighty or so years . We can't do much about the dogs that have since (zdohlee), but at least disgrace their memory and deeds for the ages to come. If someone should desecrate your home, would you give them a position of honour?, why then is the jewish german kalmyk (no racial offence intended- but you get the drift), georgian thugashvilli and other bolshevik mehrzost whose poisonous ideas and carcasses are defiantly still polluting Russia's soul and soil. PS. the amount of wealth both human and monetary that was stolen and squandered by these socialist aristocrat bandits can't even be quantified.
From what I hear on the web, thieves like Madoff may soon be considered the "lucky" ones, because they got imprisoned before the lynch mobs formed on the street. Those prison cells might eventually be viewed as shark cages - you want to be inside one, not outside. So many crooks, so few lamp posts . . .
It is my observation that there are billions of humans who have healthy brains and therefore, the health of the ego is strong. Clearly the egos of the BILLIONAIRES CLUB (George W. Bush tried his best to get Prime Minister Putin to join) are not just sick, these people who have amassed billions and trillions of dollars simply because they can? NO, because they did and do by the ways and means as always: cannibalism. Say what it is and say what it isn't. It is not a civilized world in the 21st Century. It is the death spiral of millions of humans who have inbred their "families" for far too long and now they cannot (this is actually a very sad reality for us all) even begin to understand that it is truly the zombie dead walking reaching critical mass decomposition. Look at the French leader and one can see he is not working with a full deck. And then the guy in Georgia. I don't care to take the time to even repeat their names in print because they are psychos. PSYCHOLOGICAL KILLERS MOSTLY RULE EARTH. And the reason these humans have become too ill to even know they are human and killing their own kind is because of the inbreeding and then the TRANSNATIONALS (corporations) intentionally manufactured to enslave all the planet via the "Masters of the Universe" and their digitized debt sold as money. When human beings think they are GODS and there is no such thing as balance in nature - just ask Al GORE the greatest show on earth about what happens when critical mass GOD-COMPLEX catches up with the mirror-mirror faux image. TIME for all degenerates of earth to be carefully handled and taken into the places which were manufactured by them, but we must fix these institutions into much saner healing centers than where they have chosen to "imprison MOSTLY the innocent!": GITMO.