Complaints

$230 Million Fraud Against the Russian People Discovered by Sergei Magnitsky:

• Complaint on the theft of three Hermitage Fund investment companies by Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov and their accomplices, filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) (3 December 2007)
• Complaint on the theft of three Hermitage Fund investment companies by Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov and their accomplices filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) (10 December 2007)
• Complaint filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) on the absence of an investigation into the theft of the Hermitage Fund companies (26 February 2008)
• Application by Hermitage Capital to the Russian Presidential Anti-Corruption Committee about the abuse of office by Interior Ministry officials and the theft of the Hermitage Fund’s investment companies (28 May 2008)
• Complaint on the theft of $230 million of taxes earlier paid by the three investment companies of the Hermitage Fund and the absence of any investigation into the theft of the Hermitage Fund’s companies, filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) (23 July 2008)
• Complaint on the theft of $230 million of taxes paid by the three Hermitage Fund investment companies and the absence of any investigation into the theft of the Hermitage Fund’s companies by the Interior Ministry officers and their accomplices, filed with the General Prosecutor’s Office (Chaika) (23 July 2008)
• Complaint on the unwillingness to investigate the theft of the Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and large-scale fraud, filed with the General Prosecutor’s Office (Chaika) (21 July 2008)
• Complaint by Hermitage Capital to the General Prosecutor’s Office on the illegal persecution of their lawyers who reported the Interior Ministry officers’ complicity in the $230 million theft (10 November 2008)
• Complaint to the General Prosecutor’s Office on the illegal persecution of their lawyers who reported the Interior Ministry officers’ complicity in the $230 million theft (27 October 2008)

Theft of Additional $240 Million from the Russian Treasury

• Complaint by Hermitage Capital to the General Prosecutor’s Office (Chaika) on the systematic theft by government officials of budget funds totaling 11.2 billion rubles ($470 million) (13 October 2009)
• Complaint by Hermitage Capital to the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) on the systematic theft by government officials of budget funds totaling 11.2 billion rubles ($470 million) (13 October 2009)
• Complaint by Hermitage Capital to the Russian Audit Chamber (Stepashin) on the systematic theft by government officials of budget funds totaling 11.2 billion rubles ($470 million) (13 October 2009)
• Subpoena of U.S. Banks to disclose flow of money embezzled from the Russian budget (28 July 2009)

Following the stolen money

• Complaint to Attorney General of Switzerland with request to freeze assets in Switzerland which belong to criminal group  (Jan 28 2011)

Attempts to steal an additional $21.5 Million from the Russian Treasury

• Application to start criminal case filed by Jamison Firestone to the Moscow Branch of Interior Ministry (10 August 2009)
• Complaint to General Prosecutor’s Office Jamison Firestone re. Magnitsky’s Detention and the attack made on Firestone and one of his client’s companies by the criminals who attempted to steal an additional $21.5 million from the government (5 October 2009)
• Answer from Mr. Andrei Pechegin the General Prosecutor’s ffice made without an investigation claiming that there are no violations in the Magnitsky case. (Magnitsky was dead within a month) The rest of the complaint about to steal $21.5 million from the State was not investigated. (272009).
• Complaint to the Investigatory Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office Jamison Firestone re. the criminals’ second attempt to steal the $21.5 million from the government (142010).
• • Answer to Jamison Firestone’s 142010 complaint to the Investigatory Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office re. the criminals’ second attempt to steal an additional $21.5 million from the government. Government still thinking whether to investigatesays(13 May 2010)

Complaint on the theft of three Hermitage Fund investment companies by Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov and their accomplices, filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) (3 December 2007)

On 3 December 2007, three weeks prior to Russian officers’ embezzling $230 million from the Russian state budget, the Hermitage Fund filed applications with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office to open a criminal case into the theft of its three investment companies and the complicity in the theft of Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov. Similar applications were filed with the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office and the Head of the Internal Affairs Department of the Interior Ministry. These applications notified Russian law enforcement agencies of the facts Hermitage discovered about the theft of its companies and dozens of fraudulent multi-million dollar judgments issued against these companies for the recovery of non-existent debts. The applications described in detail the fraudulent scheme and named the officers and judges who enabled the theft, as well as their accomplices, including convicted killer Victor Markelov, as well as attorneys Andrey Pavlov, Yulia Mayorova and Ekaterina Maltseva.
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Complaint on the theft of three Hermitage Fund investment companies by Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov and their accomplices filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) (10 December 2007)

Application by the Hermitage Fund with the Investigative Committee of the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office requesting the opening of criminal proceedings in relation to the misappropriation of the Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and the complicity of Interior Ministry officers in the theft.
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Complaint filed with the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office (Bastrykin) on the absence of an investigation into the theft of the Hermitage Fund companies (26 February 2008)

Complaint filed on behalf of the Hermitage Fund with the Head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office, protesting the lack of progress in the investigation of previously filed complaints about the theft of the Hermitage Fund companies, the fabrication of judicial decisions and the complicity of Interior Ministry Officers Kuznetsov and Karpov in the thefts.
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