The claimant had been convicted of criminal offences in Russia. She now objected that a continued fiminal investigation in the UK was as to the matters for which she had already served imprisonment, and was therefore oppressive.
Held: The request fro review failed. There was no double jeopardy: ‘The claimant was charged in an indictment and convicted at trial of one attempted bribe in connection with the Canbaikal project. She has never been charged in Russia with any bribe or corruption charge in connection with Vostok Energy. The recital of the facts concerned with the Vostok bribe, in the judgment of the Russian court, was designed to demonstrate the falsity of her defence that she was removed as director of the Bank for political reasons rather than her criminality and was also part of the relevant background.’
Lllyd Jones LJ, Coulson J
[2015] EWHC 4111 (Admin)
Bailii
England and Wales
Police
Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.562473