Criminal law
The practice
ZPartners offers a wide range of services in criminal law and procedure, including protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the individual against unlawful and unreasonable criminal prosecution and representation of individuals and organizations who have been victims of crimes in all phases of criminal proceedings. Lawyers at ZPartners, throughout their decades of representing clients suspected and accused of having committed economic crimes and offenses against the state, have succeeded in having criminal prosecution terminated, pre-trial detention substituted with non-custodial pre-trial restrictions or in contesting in court the investigator’s motion for detention pending trial, having the sentence mitigated in higher courts, and achieving partial or complete acquittal.
Events
June 2018
The criminal prosecution of the client with the termination of the criminal case initiated on the fact of evasion from fulfilling the obligation to repatriate money in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation was terminated (clause "a" part 2 article 193 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Lawyer Bureau Belov D.O. in cooperation with his colleagues, succeeded in stopping the criminal prosecution of his client - a large regional entrepreneur, a manufacturer suspected of evading the obligation to repatriate money in the amount of more than three million US dollars.
December 2017
Ostankino District Court of Moscow returned to the prosecutor a criminal case of embezzlement committed by an organized group in a particularly large amount (Part 4, Article 160 of the Criminal Code), to remove obstacles to its consideration by the court.
During the preliminary hearing, the team of lawyers working on the case managed to prove the inconsistency of the text of the indictment, which was earlier charged.