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Interpol rejects arrest warrant for dead Russia lawyer’s boss
International police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian request to issue an international arrest warrant for the former employer of late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, saying the case is of “political nature”.
Magnitsky died in prison in 2009 after revealing a massive fraud scheme. At the time he blew the whistle he was working for US-born British citizen William Browder, the biggest foreign investor in Russia in the past decade, who has now become a target for Russian authorities.
In a statement issued on Friday, Interpol said it had “deleted all information in relation to William Browder following a recommendation by the independent Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF)”.
After studying the case, it said the CCF had concluded it “was of a predominantly political nature and recommended that all information be deleted from Interpol’s databases”.
Browder is the founder of the Hermitage Capital hedge fund where Magnitsky worked when he went public with details of massive fraud by state officials. Shortly afterwards Magnitsky himself was charged with tax evasion.
Magnitsky died in detention after having spent 11 months on remand in squalid prisons and is currently on a controversial posthumous trial.
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Russia resumes hearings against dead lawyer
A Moscow court resumed preliminary hearings Monday in the posthumous trial of a Russian lawyer whose death in jail after accusing state officials of tax fraud has upset the Kremlin’s delicate ties with the US.
The Tverskoi District Court began the latest preliminary hearing against Sergei Magnitsky — Russia’s first legal procedure against a dead man — behind closed doors at 0600 GMT, a court spokeswoman told AFP.
The hearing is expected to set a date for the start of the trial in the case, after the state appointed an attorney to defend Magnitsky despite protests from his family.
“A lawyer is not allowed to take an instruction in a case that is clearly unlawful, and to take a position against the will of the client,” said a complaint written by Magnitsky’s relatives and distributed by his former employer Hermitage Capital.
“The assertion by prosecutors that the case was initiated at the request from the relatives is a lie,” the letter said.
Magnitsky’s mother Natalya and her own lawyers are boycotting the trial.
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France 24 Interview: William Browder, Co-founder and CEO, Hermitage Capital Management
Douglas Herbert speaks to US-born businessman William Browder about his campaign to get a US-style “Magnitsky Act” – blacklisting Russians implicated in severe human rights abuses – passed here in France. The law is named after Browder’s former lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who was found beaten to death in a Russian jail in 2009.
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Russia drops charges against doctor in Magnitsky case
Russia said Monday it had dropped charges against a doctor implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, sparking accusations that the authorities had no interest in seeking justice in the case.
Larisa Litvinova was one of only two people, both prison doctors, to be charged after a long-running and high-profile investigation into what activists see as one of Russia’s most outrageous post-Soviet rights violations.
Magnitsky died in 2009 at the age of 37 from untreated medical conditions including acute pancreatis after being held in a notoriously squalid prison during a fraud probe against his client, US investment firm Hermitage Capital.
“The Investigative Committee has decided to drop the criminal case against doctor and laboratory assistant at the pre-trial detention centre, Larisa Litvinova,” investigators said in a statement said.
It cited “the elapsing of the statute of limitations,” saying a new law had come into force since the probe began, meaning that investigators had to bring a case to trial within two years.
Litvinova was charged last August with causing death by negligence, while her boss, the detention centre’s deputy medical chief Dmitry Kratov, was charged with negligence.
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