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Magnitsky found guilty of tax evasion
Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court has found Sergei Magnitsky, an auditor for Hermitage Capital who died in a Russian prison in 2009, guilty of tax evasion, RAPSI reported from the courtroom.
This is the first time that a Russian court has tried a dead person.
The ruling came Thursday afternoon and also found Hermitage Capital head William Browder, a portfolio investor who came to Russia in the late 1990s, guilty of tax evasion in absentia.
Browder, who lives in London, was sentenced in absentia to nine years in a penal colony after being convicted of tax evasion. The court has also closed the case against Magnitsky in connection to his death.
Browder called the verdict “shameful” and vowed “to fight for justice for Sergei Magnitsky and his family until the job is done,” according to an emailed note.
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Presidential Human Rights Council dissatisfied with Magnitsky case investigation
The Presidential Human Rights Council is dissatisfied with the tempo of the investigation into the death of Hermitage Capital attorney Sergei Magnitsky at a Moscow detention ward.
Human rights activists are no longer invited to witness investigative procedures in the Magnitsky case, Council member, head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee public organization Kirill Kabanov said at the Council’s meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
“The Investigative Committee has assigned a new detective to the case. The new detective is not cooperative with human rights activists and the Presidential Council; that is the right he has by the Criminal Procedure Code,” he said.
A short time ago the Presidential Council’s working group believed that some progress had been made in the Magnitsky case, he said.
“We started to interact with the detectives. For the first time ever an Investigative Committee detective invited human rights activists to witness investigative procedures and asked their opinion about particular episodes,” Kabanov said.
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Russian party leader, rights activist doubt Magnitskiy case will be investigated
Interfax
The discontinuation of criminal proceedings against Butyrskiy remand centre doctor Larisa Litvinova in the case of the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy is unacceptable, Russian opposition party Yabloko leader Sergey Mitrokhin has said, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax on 9 April.
Mitrokhin said: “This is unacceptable not only because this is a loud case but also because this is the government’s crime against a citizen. If such cases are closed so easily, then this means that criminals are simply being shielded.”
Mitrokhin added: “Objective justice does not exist in our country. If interests of large officials are involved, then the justice system works for them and this case, most likely, will not be investigated and none of the guilty will go to jail since officials are involved in it.”
Meanwhile, a member of the presidential human rights council and head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov said that the Magnitskiy investigation was being wrapped up and that certain people were hoping to close the case when Putin takes the presidency.
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Presidential council to discuss complaint about pressure on Magnitsky’s relatives
Presidential human rights council will discuss a complaint from Sergei Magnitsky’s relatives about the Interior Ministry’s pressure and will try to help them, council member Kirill Kabanov told RIA Novosti.
“We will hold the council’s working group meeting soon,” said Kabanov emphasizing that the human activists will try to influence the situation and help the relatives.
Magnitsky, who was accused of corporate tax evasion in relation to his work for the investment fund, died in an investigative isolation ward in November 2009. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, his death was caused by cardiovascular insufficiency.
The criminal case against Magnitsky was terminated by the Investigative Committee due to his death, but the Prosecutor General’s Office decided to resume the investigation. Magnitsky’s relatives have demanded that the case against him be dropped.
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Report: Lawyer Beaten to Death
New evidence released Monday added weight to suspicions that Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by prison guards in 2009 and did not die from health problems as previously claimed by the authorities.
A report by Hermitage Capital, once Russia’s largest foreign investment fund, found that the 37-year-old lawyer was left to die on a cell floor after suffering a brain trauma in the beating apparently ordered by prison officials.
The report, which runs at 75 pages in English and 100 pages in Russian, offers gruesome photos from the morgue that depict bad bruises on what it says are Magnitsky’s wrists and legs.
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Russian rights activist criticizes scope of Magnitskiy investigation
Two years on from the death of the Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, human rights activists say that there has been no full investigation of the tragedy.
“Something was done: criminal proceedings were instituted over Magnitskiy’s death. Some people face charges as part of these proceedings; they are the doctors, and that is where the problem lies,” Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anticorruption Committee and a member of the presidential council for human rights [Council for Promoting the Development of the Institutions of Civil Society and Human Rights], told Interfax on Tuesday [15 November].
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Colonel Natalya Vinogradova
Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of the Interior Ministry colonel Natalya Vinogradova, who participated in the investigation of investment fund Hermitage Capital of lawyer Magnitsky may be involved in receiving a bribe of 40 thousand dollars for the renewal of terminating the criminal case, said Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov, in his statement sent to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.
In 2008, the bribe, divided into tranches, Vinogradova, who had the name of Shcherbakova and then worked in a methodical control of the Interior Ministry met with the member of the “Guild of Lawyers of Moscow,” Vladimir Podolyakin. In 2003, the lawyer involved in client assets under the Moscow factory “Stekloagregat.” The case of forgery in the privatization was investigating at the police department of the Southern District, and to achieve the seizure of the plant, Podolyakina requsted Vinogradova to help him. After giving her a total of 40 thousand dollars, the case was sent to the main investigation department of the Moscow police, but the property has not been arrested. Then Vladimir Podolyakin asked Natalya Vinogradova to back money. After refusing, he went to the police. According to Kirill Kabanov, this is not the only accusation against N.Vinogradova.
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Accused doctors are ‘scapegoats’, Magnitsky’s boss claims
As the Russian media reported criminal charges against two prison doctors supposedly responsible for Sergei Magnitsky’s death, his old boss is not wholly convinced.
“While I’m sure these doctors were sadistic sociopaths for what they did to Sergei, I’m sure they were taking orders from investigators higher up,” Bill Browder told The Moscow News, minutes after a Moscow court turned down a request from Natalia Magnitskaya, the dead man’s mother, to get tissue samples for independent examination.
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Jail Officials Targeted Over Magnitsky
Investigators said Monday that a criminal case has been opened into two prison officials in connection with the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and that they face possible charges of negligence.
Larisa Litvinova, former medical official at Moscow’s Butyrskaya pretrial prison, faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted of unintentional manslaughter by breach of professional duty, the Investigative Committee said.
Her former superior, Dmitry Kratov, may be jailed for five years if charged with negligence that resulted in death, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said, Interfax reported.
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