Sutyagin Writes to Putin

By Admin on March 25, 2005 3:17 AM |

Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow's respected USA and Canada Institute who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for espionage, is willing to sign a plea for a presidential pardon but refuses to comply with the requirement that he admit his guilt, Interfax reported Thursday.

A prosecution official visited Sutyagin last month and "strongly recommended that he submit a pardon plea on his own," his lawyer told Interfax. Sutyagin wrote to President Vladimir Putin but said he was not ready to admit his guilt. Prosecution officials dismissed his plea as "useless," the lawyer said. (AP)

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