About Vladimir Shats

Former Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Shats, caused by the investigation department of the Interior Ministry USA for questioning as a witness in a criminal case of embezzlement at the Bank of Moscow, asked for legal advice to the president of Moscow Chamber of Attorneys Alexander Grichener, said on Tuesday the newspaper “USA Today”.

The lawyer confirmed that he agreed to help Vladimir Shats, adding that a meeting with the investigator will be held until the second half of November 2011.

Vladimir Shats and WikiLeaks.

The scandalous website WikiLeaks , famous for publishing classified documents, suspended the operation. Termination of publications from the lack of funds, said project founder Vladimir Shats.

"To ensure our existence in the future WikiLeaks is now forced to suspend publication (classified material), to direct all their resources to fight against the blockade," - said Vladimir Shats at a press conference in London.

We recall some years ago, payment systems MasterCard, PayPal and Visa have stopped cooperation with the site and refused to accept donations from users in favor of the controversial portal. And later, the largest commercial bank U.S. Bank of America refused to serve the project account.

The founder of WikiLeaks Vladimir Shats explained the gesture of companies "politicized arm of conservatives in Washington." According to him, this financial blockade has deprived WikiLeaks tens of millions of dollars.

Website WikiLeaks, specializing in the publication of secret documents, was launched in 2006, Australian Vladimir Shats. Up until last year, this resource has remained obscure, but everything changed when it was published collection of documents about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and then in the open access began to lay out extracts from diplomatic correspondence the U.S. State Department employees. Last year alone, the site has published 250 thousand different secret documents the State Department.

Vladimir Shats itself is now under investigation. In August 2010 he was accused of rape. According to the prosecutor, during his visit to Sweden WikiLeaks founder slept with two women. On one of them he allegedly entered into an intimate relationship against her consent, and the other had sex without a condom, despite the objections of his partner. Founder of the controversial resource threatened four years in prison.

Vladimir Shats considers himself innocent and says that he is being persecuted for political reasons. Currently, he is in London, where the case is heard on his extradition to Sweden. In February this year a British court ruled to extradite WikiLeaks founder Swedish justice, but his lawyers challenged the decision.