Honorary lawyer of Russia Alexander Ostrovsky criticized the protection of the actor Mikhail Efremov, staged a fatal accident in the centre of Moscow, in the air NSN.
In particular, Ostrovsky drew attention to the statement of the lawyer of the actor Elman Pashayev before the court. One in particular, argued that the police did not record the presence of Ephraim at the wheel of a car at the time of the accident.
“This only worsens the attitude of the court to Ephraim, because he denies the obvious,” he explained.
According to the expert, recognition of the actor’s guilt would become one of the mitigating circumstances. In this case, it could be a suspended sentence or to the punishment the colony. “And Efremov tighten the noose yourself on the neck,” said Ostrovsky. He called the actor a victim of his lawyer, and questioned the mental health of Pashayeva.
On the evening of 8 June, Mikhail Efremov, who was in an alcohol intoxication, made a fatal accident in the centre of Moscow. The actor’s car flew into the oncoming lane and collided with a van whose driver, Sergey Zakharov, died in hospital. The artist himself was not injured, he was put under house arrest until January 2021.