The Russian lawyer leads an international team of legal experts who represent the ex-president's and his wife's rights.
There are a mere two items in the official record of Mr. Akayev's talks with a parliamentary commission for his resignation. As Item 1 says, Akayev is announcing his resignation of presidential competences, and pledges to comply with Item 2, which concerns unconditional applicability of constitutional Clause 53 (on state guarantees to a former president), which starts the moment his resignation is accepted.
Item 2 has not seen implementation, so the resignation application has no legal force and, from the point of the international law, Akayev may be formally regarded as Kyrgyzstan's president, and may consider himself such. The lawyer had explained this subtle point to his client, he said to the conference, according to an AKIpress report.
Akayev reserves his right to address the world with information about Kyrgyz developments, said the lawyer.
"Askar Akayev is willing, within a few days, to address heads of state and governments as former president and keeper of his country's top state secrets. He intends to offer information that may spectacularly change the pre-election arrangement of forces."
The information he has mentioned will certainly not imply state secrets divulged, the lawyer answered a reporter's question.
"Akayev has reserved his right to appeal to the world for the protection of his rights," he explained.
Akayev's lawyers are filing a lawsuit to litigate with Daniyar Usenov, Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister, for the protection of their client's honor and dignity.
Usenov heads a state commission to evaluate the first Kyrgyz president's property and, as Maximovich suspects, is "settling political accounts" with Akayev.
As he accuses the overthrown president and his family of corruption, the vice-premier has failed to offer whatever factual proof of his charges. "He is either to substantiate his allegations or apologize," stressed the lawyer.
He met with Kyrgyzstan's deputy top prosecutor earlier on the day to hear that there were no legal claims on Akayev personally, added Maximovich.
Akayev's lawyers are also determined to litigate with Kyrgyz-based media outlets on verbal abuse of a former head of state.
They are presently considering the chance to file the suit in Russia, where Akayev now is.
"That family [the Akayevs] were making money on anything, be it passports or syringes," Usenov said on a previous occasion.
"Akayev turned to many lawyers in Kyrgyzstan-yet no one dared defend him," stressed Maximovich. They were afraid for their own safety, he explained.
A dozen pickets appeared before the AKIpress premises as the news conference was on. They demanded to face "a lawyer who was defending a thief and state criminal". Maximovich had to leave the house through its basement.
