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Businessman Linked to Magnitsky Embezzlement Case Gets Minimum Sentence
A man linked to the multibillion-ruble embezzlement scheme that late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky tried to expose was handed a minimum sentence — and not asked to pay anything back.
Vyacheslav Khlebnikov, who the Investigative Committee said in January is a businessman with a criminal record, was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement, Magnitsky’s former employer, Hermitage Capital, said in an e-mailed statement.
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Hermitage attacks leniency of Russia in tax fraud ‘cover-up’
Hermitage Capital has accused the Russian state of pressing ahead with a cover up of the biggest tax fraud in Russian history after one of the men behind the scam was given a suspiciously light sentence.
The UK-based investment fund spoke out after a Moscow court confirmed it had found 43-year-old Vyacheslav Khlebnikov, a former convicted felon, guilty of taking part in the £144m fraud.
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Hermitage Capital urges Russian authorities to conduct transparent trial
Interfax
Jamison Firestone, the former boss of Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy [who died in Russian custody], has asked the Russian Prosecutor-General [Yuriy Chayka] and the head of the Russian Investigations Committee [Aleksandr Bastrykin] to conduct an open trial against Vyacheslav Khlebnikov, who figures in the case relating to embezzlement.
“J. Firestone demanded that the Prosecutor-General’s Office refuse Khlebnikov’s appeal, which is supported by the Interior Ministry, to conduct the trial in a ‘special’ (reduced) manner, without any examination of the evidence in court,” says a statement from the fund received by Interfax today.
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