High treason, transfer of classified information to foreign states, espionage for third countries, mass escape from prison, involvement in the death of protesters, insulting representatives of the judiciary – this is the list of charges brought against the first democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi.
He died suddenly in the dock right in the courtroom during hearings at the retrial of a mass prison break and espionage for Hamas.
Maxim Vladimirovich Tafintsev defended Mohammed Morsi as his lawyer.

Collegium lawyer Maxim Tafintsev organized and for two years led the defense in China in the case of large-scale smuggling of amber from the Russian Federation to the PRC. This violation is classified as a particularly serious crime against the state, punishable by up to 25 years in prison. There were more than 30 defendants in the case. Maxim Tafintsev’s client received only 3 years and 6 months in prison (which he served in a pre-trial detention center during the investigation) and a fine.

Maxim Tafintsev and a team of lawyers defended from execution 529 Egyptian citizens accused of rioting, attacks on police and the murder of one security force. Of the 545 people whose cases were heard twice in the Minya court, 529 were sentenced to death and 16 were acquitted. The death sentences, handed down in such an incredible number in one day, drew sharp condemnation from international human rights organizations and the Egyptian opposition, which said that the country’s new authorities are seeking to intimidate the people ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections and to put an end to dissent and any protest movement for a long time.

After the active work of a group of lawyers, including Maxim Tafintsev, the death penalty was replaced with prison terms.

Lawyer Maxim Tafintsev defended the interests of a company operating in the field of motor oil trade during a pre-investigation audit of the region’s Economic Crimes Department. As a result of the work of Maxim Tafintsev, all claims of the investigators were dropped

For two years, lawyer Maxim Tafintsev led a group of Russian and Korean lawyers to defend the captains and crew members of the trawlers Han Il, Han Jin and the floating base Shin An and defended the interests of the South Korean company Silla Co Ltd. . By the time the lawyer accepted the defense, the captains, as well as cargo and vessels worth about $50 million, had been seized. The damage caused by the company was estimated by investigators at tens of millions of dollars. Thanks to the defense of Maxim Tafintsev and the team, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky court sentenced the South Korean captains to a minimum suspended sentence. They were released after six months of imprisonment, the seized ships and cargo were fully returned to Shilla Company Ltd. The company paid damages for overfishing in the amount of $1.5 million.

For three years, lawyer Maxim Tafintsev defended the victims in the Freedom Flotilla case (the seizure of ships from a convoy by Israeli special forces, including the Mavi Marmara ferry). As a result of Maxim Tafintsev’s work, victims and their families received significant monetary compensation from Israel. The UN condemned the brutality of the Israeli authorities and special forces against the dead and arrested citizens of more than 30 states.