Billionaire Alexander Lebedev hopes to escape criminal punishment with a flow of positive letters praising his persona.
The Ostankino District Court in Moscow which investigates his on-air brawl with Sergey Polonsky has received some 60 letters signed by prominent Russian dignitaries.
Among them is the head of the children’s clinic which received $2 million in gift from Lebedev’s National Reserve Bank in the 2000s, director of the centre treating disabled children, and Natalia Vodyanova, a top model and the founder of the Naked Heart Foundation.
Author: Mikhail Vesely