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Cold comfort for Magnitsky cause
A trio of positive signals from Russian authorities offers scant cause for celebration among friends and family of dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
“The investigation has made significant progress,” President Medvedev told journalists in a televised question and answer session on Wednesday afternoon. He added that Russian investigators are to help Swiss counterparts and that the circumstances and actual causes of Magnitsky’s death “will be known soon.”
Suspect tax officials will be inspected closely, he added something that Magnitsky’s colleagues have been demanding since the lawyer’s death in custody in November 2009.
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Marital murmurings in Magnitsky case
Embezzlement charges against tax official Olga Stepanova are now washing around her marriage and her relationship with her husband.
Stepanova and a $230 million fraud are at the centre of a media storm, with supporters of the late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison, say ended up in Stepanova’s husband’s offshore bank accounts.
Stepanova’s lawyer says that this in no way implicates her client, as the two have been separated for almost 20 years.
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Tax official blasted over the Magnitsky affair
A sudden boom in the finances of a former tax official has come under the spotlight as part of a campaign to keep up the pressure on those allegedly involved in the incarceration and subsequent death of Sergey Magnitsky.
Olga Stepanova, a former tax official, and her family members became unwilling stars in a new video, part of the “Stop Untouchable!” campaign. Activists want to get justice for Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in pre-trial detention custody in 2009.
Jamison Firestone, Magnitsky’s former colleague at Firestone Duncan, has filed a claim to the Investigative Committee, calling for a criminal case to be opened against Stepanova, the then head of Moscow’s tax inspectorate no. 28.
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US leans towards Medvedev
No US official has explicitly backed President Dmitry Medvedev for re-election in 2012, but US Vice President Joe Biden came within a hair’s breadth of giving Medvedev his endorsement in preference to Vladimir Putin in a series of blunt messages during his visit to Moscow last week.
Biden, who met with both the president and prime minister, reportedly suggested to a group of opposition leaders that Putin – who many believe still wields the reins of power after stepping down in 2008 – should not run for a third term.
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