Lawyer Fyodor Sirosh, who, by agreement, defended SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya in the case of cooperation with FBK, was removed from the case. Sirosh himself told Mediazona about this.
As Mediazona learned, the investigation motivated the recusal by the fact that Fyodor Sirosh had previously been present as a defense attorney at the interrogation of one of the witnesses in the FBK case, and the investigation considers this a conflict of interest.
In The resolution on the recusal of Fyodor Sirosh states that this decision of the investigation is connected with the interrogation of Navalny’s team lawyer Evgeny Zamyatin in 2019 in a case of money laundering (clause “b” of part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code), in which Sirosh participated as a defense attorney.
Today Fyodor Sirosh and Antonina Favorskaya’s lawyer Evgenia Grigorieva filed a complaint against this challenge. The complaint states that the interrogation of Yevgeny Zamyatin five years ago does not in any way contradict the interests of Antonina Favorskaya and relates to another episode of the “FBK case” — these episodes are in no way connected with each other, the episodes contain different circumstances and elements of crimes.
29 In March, Favorskaya was arrested on charges of participating in the activities of an “extremist community.” According to the press service of the Moscow courts, the journalist is charged with “collecting material, producing and editing videos and publications for FBK.” Favorskaya herself, when she was taken out of the courtroom, managed to shout: “They are trying me for an article about how the Federal Penitentiary Service tortured Alexei Navalny!”