Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Beck, Marieluise MEP

“President Medvedev has shouldered the political responsibility for tackling ‘legal nihilism’. He included it in his platform. This is a very important commitment when it comes to the Yukos case. During the first trial it was a matter of tax evasion. Now, during the second trial, there is much more active use of words such as ‘stole, theft’. This all indicates that the present trial is an openly political.

There is a contradiction in the logic of the first and the second trial. First they talked about tax evasion, now they talk about embezzlement of vast amounts of oil. These two things could not have happened simultaneously”

Marieluise Beck MEP Germany (Green Party), Spokeswoman Eastern European Affairs, October 19,  2010