Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Swiss Launch Probe Into Credit Suisse’s Russian Customers

Barron’s

Swiss prosecutors confirmed today that they’ve opened an official criminal investigation into suspicious transactions in several Credit Suisse accounts, which appear to show that the family of a Russian tax official became suddenly wealthy after approving the refund of $230 million in 2007 to scammers who were impersonating the leading hedge fund Hermitage Capital.

Russia’s Interior Ministry cleared the tax official Olga G. Stepanova, and bizarrely blamed the theft on the Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who had first reported the corporate identity theft and delivered evidence to Russian prosecutors that the scheme was an inside job involving Stepanova, Interior Ministry cops and a number of career criminals. Magnitsky became a martyr to Russian anti-corruption crusaders when he died in November 2009, after almost a year in the custody of the police who he’d accused.