Trial of American lawyer Zeltser scheduled to open on July 30
The trial of American
lawyer Emanuil Zeltser is scheduled to open at the Minsk City Court on July 30,
said his defense counsel Dzmitry Harachka.
Zeltser is accused of
drug smuggling and business espionage. He was arrested in
He has been held at
the KGB pre-trial detention center. Some observers linked his arrest to a legal
battle for the assets
of the late Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili.
Zeltser, an emigrant from the former
Soviet Union, is considered an expert in organized crime and money laundering
in
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