Polygraph test says court spokeswoman did not lie in disclosing details of Khodorkovsky trial
MOSCOW. Feb 24 (Interfax) - Natalya Vasilyeva, a press officer of Moscow's Khamovhichesky Court and an aide to Judge Viktor Danilkin, who recently tried former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former Menatep head Platon Lebedev, has voluntarily passed a polygraph test, which showed that she did not lie in disclosing some controversial details of the trial, the interregional human rights association Agora told Interfax on Thursday.
Vasilyeva claimed recently in a televised interview broadcast on the Dozhd TV channel, whose transcript was published on www.gazeta.ru, that Danilkin had been pressured from above during the trial and that the sentence was imposed on him by the Moscow City Court.
Agora has volunteered to represent Vasilyeva's interests following her interview.
"Asked whether she shared her information regarding the sentence handed down on Khodorkovsky and Lebedev with the media because she had been paid for such information, Vasilyeva gave a negative answer, and the lie detector indicated that she told the truth," an Agora spokesperson said.
The polygraph confirmed that Vasilyeva gave her interview in order to "relieve Justice Viktor Danilkin of responsibility for the sentence and salvage his honor and dignity," he said.
The polygraph also showed that Vasilyeva told the truth in giving positive answers when she was asked whether she had learned that the sentence had been written at the Moscow City Court from her colleagues and whether she knew for sure that a higher court forced Danilkin to pronounce this sentence, he said.
The polygraph also confirmed that Vasilyeva did not lie in answering negatively when asked whether she could have provided the media with the wrong information and whether she gave her interview to take vengeance on her boss.
"The main conclusion based on the psycho-physiological reactions obtained during the test using a Baryer-14 polygraph is that Vasilyeva gave her interview about the sentence handed down on Khodorkovsky and Lebedev without anyone's request. She was not paid for this, is sure that the sentence was written at the Moscow City Court, and shared her information with the media in order to salvage her boss's honor and dignity and relieve him of responsibility for the sentence he pronounced," the Agora spokesperson said.
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