Chapter 617

One week after the meeting between Sobchak and chuerbanov, the much anticipated "husband in law case" finally entered the stage of trial. Because of the consideration of the political purpose behind the case, ligachov was very dissatisfied with the public trial of chuerbanov. However, Yakovlev insisted on making the trial process public to the media. He thought that if the secret trial of such a celebrity with wide attention as chuerbanov, it would greatly discount the openness policy advocated by the Soviet Union, It's reversing the Soviet Union's political reform. In the end, the Politburo chose to stand on Yakovlev's side and negated ligachev's idea.

So in this case, people all over the country began to pay attention to the fate of the former son-in-law. For a moment, it was hard to get a vote from the bystander. Many local media rushed to Moscow to wait for the latest news. This trial has aroused the curiosity of the people all over the country. People are curious about the private lives of chuerbanov and Galina, and they are angry about the huge wealth chuerbanov has revealed. The common people wish that the former son-in-law was put in prison. However, many people with conscience in the legal circle of the Soviet Union do not think so. They are not populists, We only hope that the judicial organs can deal with the case of chuerbanov with a fair trial without interference, and safeguard the dignity of the Soviet law.

The significance of criminal law is to provide the prosecution and defense with an opportunity to sit down and bargain. In a civil law country like the Soviet Union, the prosecution and the defense have to refute each other in legal theory in order to win. This is quite different from the laws of the common law countries. In the common law countries, the final verdict is actually the jury elected from ordinary citizens. Therefore, lawyers in common law system usually take persuading the jury as their main defense strategy.

Sobchak was full of confidence in the trial. After the prosecution read out the indictment, the two sides entered the stage of trial debate. Sobchak first pleaded not guilty to the abuse of power proposed by the prosecution. Although the materials prepared by the prosecution are sufficient, as well as the confession given by the person in charge of the frontier army engineering unit who participated in the construction of the villas at the beginning, the evidence given by the prosecution is full of flaws under the defense of Sobchak. They can not prove that chuerbanov did not build these villas at the instigation of former minister xiaolokov who had committed suicide, This made the prosecution's first trump card suddenly useless.

That's the end of the morning trial. After the judge announced the recess, sobchuck left the court with his assistant. After a short break at noon, Sobchak mercilessly overturned the prosecution's accusations one by one in the afternoon trial. Sobchak was able to teach in Leningrad University, and his legal literacy was beyond saying. The prosecution's counterattack by Sobchak had no fighting power, and even could not speak when questioned for a time. The reporters on the scene pointed their camera at the 50 year old law professor. They were surprised at the absolute advantage of Sobchak in the court. Because of Sobchak's excellent performance, the high-profile trial showed a one-sided trend early on.

In fact, the judges and prosecutors on the scene had already received the pressure from the top, but Ho Sobchak was too strong, and the prosecution was too confident to belittle the enemy, which made the judge unable to return even if he wanted to help. In the end, the judge even anxiously asked the prosecution, "comrade prosecutor, don't you really intend to speak? Can't you say something? " The prosecutors questioned in cold sweat.

In the end, the judge couldn't see it any more. After the prosecution asked for an interval, the judge happily ended the painful trial. Even the layman chuerbanov also saw the extraordinary place of sobchuck. Chuerbanov, who had been frustrated, was put out of court by the bailiff laughing.

After leaving the courtroom, Sobchak returned to his residence, and seryosha's phone call came soon. Xie liaosha watched the report of the trial on TV. He already knew about sobchuck's performance. Xie liaosha felt that there was nothing to worry about in the trial. But sophisticated Sobchak still has some reservations, he reminds the sherius sand prosecutors may try their best to deal with him.

Xie liaosha expressed his gratitude for Sobchak's reminding. It seems that this sudden rectification movement deliberately imitates President Andropov's policy, but the main role of its implementation has changed from the KGB to the judicial system. This is one of the few departments that ligachev has complete control over. It seems that ligachov wants to solve the situation of the large number of local governments and ministries once and for all. Therefore, this rectification movement has a large impact on the whole. A large number of people drawn from Moscow went to various regions of the Soviet Union to collect evidence. Even some retired veteran comrades are not spared. However, shario sargyady ligachov will not last long. Brezhnev has been the supreme leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years. Brezhnev is always as tolerant as his father to most officials. There are few upright officials like Xie Lieping. Moreover, most of these officials can not be promoted and reused. Only those who are flexible and capable, such as Suslov and Andropov, can be reused. It is conceivable that if ligachov really intends to pursue corruption, the whole country's bureaucracy will have to collapse.

Xie liaosha asked some of Sobchak's views on the case. Sobchak said that according to the current situation, there is no need for Xie liaosha to do anything for the time being. Everything can be decided when the prosecution takes further action.

After he put down the phone, he let go of his mental calculation. At present, he has many other things to deal with, such as inspecting the joint venture factory between Volkswagen and Gorky automobile factory, which is under construction, such as the Wanbao Road cigarette of Philip Morris Company, which is going to enter the Soviet market, For example, McDonald's will open its first restaurant in Moscow, and Kraft Foods will set up a branch in Moscow. After all, this is the first time that American enterprises have entered the market of the Soviet Union since the Stalin era. Many of their work has no routine to follow, and they have to start from scratch.

So he put aside chuerbanov's case for the time being and left for Gorky to inspect the construction progress of the automobile factory. Before his departure, he invited the three newly acquired companies to visit the Soviet Union and asked Secretary Gorbachev of the Kremlin whether he intended to meet the US business delegation. The Kremlin immediately gave a positive response.