Carter-Ruck backs suspected large-scale money launderer

Russian TV is carrying a major story today about British libel firm Cater-Ruck and some of the criminals it is representing and has represented.

They even describe the firm as 'discredited' and add that 'known terrorists and corrupt warlords' seek their services.

The Russians even have the cheek to name some past Carter-Ruck clients like Trafigura and Robert Maxwell.

It would seem that the Russians may be reacting in part to this story which came out last week:

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One of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's sons, Maxim Bakiyev, received a temporary political asylum in Great Britain on Friday.

Maxim Bakiyev, the second son of ousted Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was detained on Monday by the U.K. Border Agency after landing at Farnborough airport in southern England in a rented private jet. He has been charged with money laundering and was on the Interpol wanted list.

"I have been forced into exile in fear for my life. The interim government in Kyrgyzstan accuses me of new crimes every day," The Daily Telegraph quoted Maxim as saying in a statement from Carter-Ruck Solicitors.

The source said that a decision to grant Maxim Bakiyev permanent political asylum is possible after the entire circumstances of events become clear.

"Maxim has indeed received temporary political asylum from British authorities," the source said, adding: "It's difficult for me to say how that looks from a legal point of view, but it is clear to us that British authorities are not ready to react to the emotional statements made by the interim Kyrgyz authorities."

"Mr. Bakyiev was screened in accordance with normal procedures for port of entry asylum claims, and then granted temporary admission pending the consideration of his claim," Carter-Ruck Solicitors said in a statement.

Carter-Ruck Solicitors earlier represented interests of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom in 2003.

The Kyrgyz Prosecutor's General's Office initially charged Maxim Bakiyev with embezzling millions of dollars of a loan from Russia. According to prosecutors he had placed $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts while in office.

The interim government later said it suspected him of organizing and financing the recent deadly clashes in the country's two southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, which left some 200 people dead.

"The charges are bogus, to divert attention from their own crimes. They accuse me before there has been any opportunity for an investigation. Clearly they seek to try to make me a scapegoat for the chaos in the country," Maxim Bakiyev said.

"I view events in my homeland with horror and pray for an end to the violence," he added.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who took refuge in Belarus after being ousted as a result of mass riots in April, told a news conference in Minsk on Monday that the accusations against him and his family were "groundless."

Some 200 people died and thousands were injured in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups in southern Kyrgyzstan. The unrest broke out in the city of Osh on June 11 and then spread to the neighboring Jalalabad region.

MOSCOW / LONDON, June 18 (RIA Novosti)

Early reports about this claimed he was arrested.

http://www.mn.ru/international/20100615/187874467.html

Meanwhile, authorities in Kyrgyzstan are demanding the extradition of Bakiyev’s younger son, Maxim, who was arrested on Sunday in Britain, where he was apparently trying to flee.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnUPWiNV59O_GibEWt1dAicXUIsA
Bakiyev's son held in Britain: Kyrgyz officials


(AFP) – Jun 14, 2010
BISHKEK — The son of toppled Kyrgyzstan president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been arrested in Britain on an Interpol warrant, Kyrgyz officials said on Monday.
Maxim Bakiyev was held in a "secret operation" on his arrival at Farnborough airport in southern England, Keneshbek Duyichebayev, the chief of Kyrgyzstan's national security council, told local television.
In London, a spokesman for the Home Office declined to comment, saying: "For data protection reasons we cannot comment."
A duty officer for Hampshire police force, which covers Farnborough, said the case was being dealt with by the UK Border Agency, which is part of the Home Office.
In Bishkek, Duyichebayev said Maxim Bakiyev wanted to seek asylum in Britain and had flown there in a private aircraft.
He would be "either extradited or judged" in Britain, added Azimbek Beknazarov, an official from Kyrgyzstan's interim government.

Do you read Private Eye? They call them "Carter Fuck". That's a direct quote not me swearing but I find that funny. Didn't they try to cover up a environmental disaster by trying to silence people who knew about it?

Flossie wrote:Do you read 'Private Eye'? They call them "Carter Fuck". That's a direct quote not me swearing but I find that funny. Didn't they try to cover up a environmental disaster by trying to silence people who knew about it?

That's the Trafigura company that I referred to in the beginning of my OP.

P.S. I don't read Private Eye but sources keep me abreast of anything of interest that appears there.

Carter Ruck have been proved to protect a company that are doing criminal things!!!!

Flossie wrote:Carter Ruck have been proved to protect a company that are doing criminal things!!!!

With out stating the obvious, that's what they are supposed to do

it's the way they do it that is being brought into question, I believe ???

Flossie wrote:Carter Ruck have been proved to protect a company that are doing criminal things!!!!

Flossie, does it ever cross your mind that this may not have been the only time they have protected those who have done or are doing 'criminal things'?

Such is the nature of being lawyers sometimes.

Judge Mental wrote:

Flossie wrote:Carter Ruck have been proved to protect a company that are doing criminal things!!!!

Flossie, does it ever cross your mind that this may not have been the only time they have protected those who have done or are doing 'criminal things'?

Such is the nature of being lawyers sometimes.

Possibly she's not heard of Pinochet?

@ kary
Flossie appears naive, in a very knowing way

It is a dangerous slippery slope that Flossie is sliding around on. We can only offer advice where necessary, and hope Flossie sees the light before landing on top of the festering heap with those others who believe in allowing sleeping dogs to lie.

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1265

I'm waiting to hear flossie's condemnation of the violence threatened against Mr. Bennett and the despicable way he has been treated.

Cherry wrote:I'm waiting to hear flossie's condemnation of the violence threatened against Mr. Bennett and the despicable way he has been treated.

I think you might be in for a long wait!

Cherry wrote:I'm waiting to hear flossie's condemnation of the violence threatened against Mr. Bennett and the despicable way he has been treated.

Flossie does not appear to be a poster of rational character from what I have read to date.