The Moscow prosecutor's office approved an indictment against two defendants in the case of an attack on lawyer Elena Ponomareva. This was reported on the website of the department's capital department.
The defendants in the case are accused of threatening to cause harm to health against a defense lawyer in connection with the administration of justice (Part 4 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code). The materials were submitted for consideration to the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow.
According to information on the court’s website, the accused names are I. Karpov and P. Morozov. According to investigators, on the morning of July 6, at one of the public transport stops on Rublevskoye Highway in Moscow, they doused Ponomareva with brilliant green. As a result, the lawyer received a second-degree burn to her eyes.
Shortly before this, the accused were contacted by a man who offered 100 thousand rubles for the attack. He explained that dousing the lawyer with brilliant green was necessary in connection with “professional activities” and demanded that it be filmed. The case against him was separated into separate proceedings.
Later, Karpov and Morozov received information about the lawyer — in particular, photographs of Ponomareva, her work and residence addresses — and went to Moscow. In the capital, they began to follow the defender and then attacked her.
Ponomareva herself connected the attack with a drug trafficking case. “From my point of view, what happened is related to the investigation of a drug trafficking case, in which I was interrogated in the Lytkarinsky court in 2021 as a witness. The accused were convicted and sentenced to a serious prison term, and everything that happened to me could have been revenge for the fact that I did not confirm their version at the trial,” the lawyer reported then.
Initially Karpova and Morozova detained under the article of hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code), but later the case was reclassified. On July 10, the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow sent them to a pre-trial detention center.