Zeltser to undergo forensic psychiatric expert examination

• 16.04.2008, 11:28

Holding Forensic psychiatric expert examination of the US citizen Emanuel Zeltser detained in Minsk has been ordered by investigator.

“E. Zeltser was placed to a forensic psychiatry department for individuals under tough security”, Interfax was told in the Republican clinic mental hospital near Minsk (Navinki settlement).

“He was placed to the department to undergo an examination,” representatives of the hospital said. They refused to say for how long it would take, and why the examination had been prescribed referring to medical secrecy.

As it was informed earlier, a former Soviet citizen Emanuel Zeltser was arrested on March 12 in Minsk airport. He arrived to Minsk for a short meeting with clients. Some mass media alleged that the arrest of the lawyer is connected with the case of the late Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili who was E. Zeltser’s client.

Emanuel Zeltser currently heads the American Russian Law Institute based in New York. He is an expert on organized crime and money laundering combat in Russia and the former Soviet Union. IN 2000-2001 he was a lawyer of Pavel Borodin, the State Secretary of the union of Belarus and Russia detained in New York.

E. Zeltser appeared in the case of alleged money laundering via Bank of New York.