Russian prosecutor’s libel claim against dead lawyer’s colleague rejected

Interfax

The Meshchanskiy district court of Moscow has turned down the claim by an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office, Andrey Pechegin. He asked for a decision to order Jamison Firestone – a colleague of a lawyer of Hermitage Capital investment fund, Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in remand prison – to retract assertions, according to which the claimant with his actions paralysed the investigation of the case of the theft of R5.4bn from the budget of the Russian Federation.

According to an Interfax correspondent, the court read out only the declarative part of the ruling and therefore the reasons it was guided by will become known later.

“The claim by A. Pechegin regarding the defence of honour, dignity and business reputation has been turned down,” the court ruled.

A lawyer to the claimant said that the decision will be appealed against in a higher court – in the Moscow City Court.

Pechegin had asked the court to order Firestone to retract the information distributed by him, according to which the claimant with his actions supposedly paralysed the investigation into the theft of R5.4bn from the budget of the Russian Federation and covered up for employees of the Interior Ministry who investigated Sergey Magnitskiy’s case.
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