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"No doubt some of the suspects won't be acquitted" - lawyer Aleksandr Fomenko
Published: 06 December, 2009, 14:31
Edited: 26 March, 2010, 03:29
People lay flowers outside the Lame Horse nightclub where a fire broke late Friday, in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009
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The owners of the ill-fated club might have bribed local authorities to get permits to run it.
According to lawyer Aleksandr Fomenko, Perm city administration may also bear the blame for not ensuring safety standards were maintained at the nightclub, which caught fire due to negligence, killing 112 and injuring 120 people in Russia’s Urals.
“People will demand that the authorities who issued the permits for this club are punished,” he says, “And of course the whole corrupted system has to be changed.”
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I am a safety advisor and have been trying to get my foot in the door in Russia to help organisations see the light and be within the law but the problem has been the corruption that has made it very difficult.