Dear Supporters

Many thanks for your support and for the additional several thousand signatures in recent days.

Today's update will consist of three parts.

First, in continuation of the previous update about the law firm CANDEY I would like to inform you that today I filed an additional complaint with the Solicitor Regulation Authority against CANDEY (the initial complaint was filed on 18 February). The reason for the additional complaint is in some sense comical, but it is very serious and additionally confirms that the most appropriate response from the SRA is an immediate closure of CANDEY. The use by "respectable" solicitors of this kind of insultingly slanderous technique clearly demonstrates their impotence against my accusations of bribery by the oligarchs.

By the way, I caught myself on a very interesting thought that needs additional reflection. The fact is that it is exactly because of the bribery of CANDEY by the Russian oligarchs I essentially lost access to justice in the framework of the existing lawsuit (let me remind you that the fateful decision in the existing case was made by a judge closely associated with the oligarchs' lawyers, Mr Beltrami KC, and this story is a part of my petition). Therefore, I have grounds to file a new lawsuit against CANDEY and its bribe-givers for compensation for damage caused by their criminal conspiracy. And this damage is just the loss of the ability to continue the existing lawsuit.

The second part of this update concerns the Latvian criminal case on death threats made against me and even my children with demands to drop the existing lawsuit. On Friday, I received a letter from one of the addresses of my petition - the prosecutor Mr Puhov. In the letter, he speaks about my proposal to appoint a linguistic expert examination and admits that it is not necessary, since the situation is extremely obvious without any expert examinations.

When I raised the issue of the expert examination, I just wrote that I did not see the point in it because of the obviousness of the situation, but suggested that since no one has been accused in this obvious situation yet, then maybe the investigation still has some doubts that can be dispelled by experts.

Even before the prosecutor's answer, the situation seemed extremely strange to me, and with the latter answer, it becomes completely inexplicable. IF THE SITUATION IS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE, THEN WHAT IS THE REASON THAT SO FAR NO ONE HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AS ACCUSED OR AT LEAST A SUSPECT, OR, MORE SIMPLY, WHY DO THE CRIMINALS CONTINUE TO REMAIN AT LARGE?!

I ask this obvious question again to the Latvian addressees of my petition and remind them of my open letter to them. Of course, I will continue to draw the attention of the Parliament, the public and the press to this strange situation.

Finally, in the third part of this update, I want to express my joy that my long (2.5 hour) video interview with human rights activists, released on 1 March, despite my fears that, due to its length, will not arouse interest, is gaining views. If you haven't watched it yet, I invite you to watch it. I talk not only about things that have long been known and described in the press (such as attempts to kill, constant death threats, etc.), but also about new things (not covered by the press) – for example, that the oligarchs managed to corrupt the English legal system. To put it in legal terms, we are talking about perverting the course of justice.

Many thanks,

Igor Sychev