SAVE EMANUEL ZELTSER

About the civil lawsuit filed by Inna Gudavadze in Southern District of New York.

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The lawsuit does not belong to the US court of law because:

1. The plaintiffs, Inna Gugavadze and her 2 daughters are not the US citizens or US residents;
2. Badri Patarkatsishvili whose properties are described in the lawsuit, was not a US citizen or US resident;
3. The properties in questions, including Imedi, are not located in the US

Based on the above, no judge and no court in the USA have jurisdiction over the matters totally unrelated to this country.

In addition, for the court to proceed, a defendant must be properly served in order to defend himself and in order for the court process to go ahead. Emanuel Zeltser has been locked up in the Belarusian KGB jail, and, therefore, was not served in New York, where the lawsuit is filed. If he is served in Belarus, that would require his immediate release to go to New York to defend himself in the New York court. This, naturally, will never happen as it goes against the criminal interests of Boris Berezovsky and Inna Gudavadze who deprive Emanuel Zeltser to his constitutional rights to due process of law and the possibility of defending himself. Both Berezovsky and Gugavadze clearly realize that Mr. Zeltser will undoubtedly prove the authenticity of the Patarkatsishvili’s will and other documents in a court of law in the country with the established justice and constitutional rights, so, they, in conspiracy with the Berezovsky’s friend, Belarus dictator Lukashenka unlawfully keep Emanuel Zeltser in Belarus, a country with no justice at all, to make sure, Emanuel Zeltser would not be able to present the legitimate documents and represent the wishes of Badri Patarkatsishvili, his client for 14 years.   

So, why to file a totally unfounded and arbitrary civil lawsuit that does not even belong in the US court?

There are 2 basic reasons.  

1. Publicity and manipulation of public information. The US justice system allows anybody to file a lawsuit against anybody in the US court. The filing of a lawsuit does not necessarily mean that the court will even agree to hear the case (this particular lawsuit in its present form has a very little chance to proceed).  However, as most of the people are unfamiliar with the US court system, Ms. Gudavadze, by announcing the fact of filing a lawsuit in New York, tries to bring publicity and the appearance of legitimacy to her continuing attempts to avoid justice.
2. Even though, the Gudavadze’s lawsuit and charges it contains are unfounded and superficial, it must be formally answered by respected attorneys of the defendant. This cost money, a lot of money, especially as Emanuel Zeltser, a licensed US lawyer, is unable to do the legal work himself as he has been conveniently incarcerated in a KGB Belarus jail. By keeping Emanuel Zeltser in jail, Berezovsky and Gudavadze not only deprive Mr. Zeltser from his basic legal rights, but also from his earnings. Berezovsky’s Machiavellian plot is to bleed out Emanuel Zeltser and his family of their available funds, realizing that the Zeltser family is no match for Berezovsky’s enormous resources. In fact, Mark Zeltser, Emanuel’s brother, has already put his New York apartment for sale in order to cover Emanuel’s significant legal expenses.     

In addition, the legal experts point out at an outrageous and unheard of act of Michelle Duncan, a lawyer of both Berezovsky and Gudavadze in a clear and blatant violation of the accepted legal ethics and law: in paragraph 64 of the lawsuit Ms. Duncan admits that she contacted the Belarus Prosecutor General on March 3, 2008 and informed him that Emanuel Zeltser and Joseph Kay may travel to Belarus with the forged documents. In addition, upon information and belief, Michelle Duncan requested from the Belarus authorities the information gained by Belarus KGB during Emanuel Zeltser’s interrogations by the KGB Special Interrogation Unit, known for its most barbaric torture methods. This clearly makes Ms. Duncan a co-conspirator together with Berezovsky and Gudavadze.