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The Moscow City Court has postponed the high-profile trial of several former police officers suspected in the illegal apprehension of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov last year after the lawyer of one of the defendants said he had lost his legal license.
Aleksei Kovrizhkin, the lawyer of the former chief of the Moscow police s illegal-drugs department, Igor Lyakhovets, told the court at the start of the trial on December 14 that the Moscow Chamber of Attorneys revoked his license to practice for unspecified reasons in October.
The court recessed and said the trial would reconvene on December 17 as it waits for official confirmation of Kovrizhkin s status.