April 25, 2009 By James Kimer

Kudrin Subpoened to Testify in Khodorkovsky Case

Russia’s Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin just got served during a visit to Washington D.C. with a Federal Court subpoena to testify in the trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Russia.  This story was broke by Reuters:

“On April 24, an unidentified person handed over some papers to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Kudrin had no understanding about the content of the papers and immediately handed them over to one of his aides,” Kuznetsov said in the statement, which was written in Russian.

“As was established later, the papers were a notification, issued by the District of Columbia Federal Court, to testify in the criminal case against (ex-YUKOS CEO) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which is being heard in a Russian court.”

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