The defender of Vitaly Berezhny, accused of killing 8-year-old schoolgirl Nastya Muravyova from Tyumen, became lawyer Alexander Pochuev, who sued American singer Madonna and Russian actor Alexei Panin. Ura.ru reported.
Pochuev said on his Telegram channel that he entered the case at the request of relatives of Berezhnoy, due to the increasing pressure on the defense of the accused. “They decided to include me in their defense team as an expert in high-profile cases and author of the concept of public criminal convictions. Entering the case, I appealed to the court, Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, to stop further leaks of case materials and public harassment of the not yet convicted accused, ”said the court. announced his decision.
According to the lawyer, the Moscow City Court will continue to form a jury on March 16, which will have to give a verdict in the Berezhny case.
Pochuev previously represented the interests of well-known people who sued the singer Madonna for 333 million rubles. defended the wife of actor Alexei Panin in the case of determining the residence of his daughter for promoting LGBT at a concert, convicted of murder in St. He was the lawyer of Oleg Sokolov, an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University. and smashing a graduate student.
Nastya Muravyova disappeared on June 30, 2021. A month and a half later, his body with signs of violent death was found on the shore of the lake, 2.5 km from his home. A week later, the alleged murderer, 40-year-old local resident Vitaly Berezhny, an employee of a furniture factory, was detained. Berezhnoy later said that the police tortured him with electric shocks and forced him to confess, and wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. November 2022 It was published Images from the site where the remains of Nastya Muravyova, an 8-year-old Tyumen woman, were found.