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Dec. 02, 2006
Son of Russian Oil Tycoon Pleads Guilty in London
Ivan Mazur Jnr, son of a major oil and gas pipeline company CEO,
faced a London court on Friday. The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to
drink-driving which killed one and injured six more.
Ivan Mazur, 22, crashed in his Mitsubishi Evolution VIII into a
road post in central London on November 6 last year, colliding into
a BMW from the oncoming traffic. The accident killed Mazur’s
friend, Charlie Green, 21, who was sitting nearside. Green’s
girlfriend who was sitting at the back was injured. Mazur Jnr. was
taken to hospital to be diagnosed with brain concussion and
amnesia. Six people from the BMW were badly injured.
The car’s speed exceeded 145 km an hour with the speed limit on
this spot being 50 km/hr. The police also said that the 22-year-old
was drunk after he had taken alcohol and drugs at a party with his
friends. Mazur’s defense challenged this statement as the blood
test which had been made shortly after the incident was lost.
Quite unexpectedly, Ivan Mazur Jnr. pleaded guilty on Friday before
the court hearing and apologized before the parents of the deceased
Charlie Green. Ivan’s father, Ivan Mazur Snr., told Kommersanthe
had asked Ivan to plead guilty to make the verdict more lenient. “I
regret it now, though,” Mazur said. “Perhaps he should have
defended himself till the end.” The president of Rosneftegazstroy,
Russia’s largest oil and gas pipeline construction company, had
come to London to support his son.
Mazur Snr. is indignant that the British press called Ivan the son
of an oil tycoon and billionaire. “Ivan is a brilliant Eton
graduate,” he told Kommersant. “He is the only Russian to receive
the Queen’s scholarship.” In the recent years, Ivan has been doing
his postgraduate course at the Oxford University.
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