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Explosive Video Documents Depth of Putin’s Mafia State
World Affairs
Michael Weiss
It is no longer possible to distinguish where organized crime ends and the state begins in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. An extraordinary 17-minute video just exhibited by the anti-corruption website Russian Untouchables shows how an elite crime syndicate headed by a longtime gangster, Dmitry Klyuev, and including active agents of the Russian Interior Ministry and Moscow tax offices, managed to steal close to $1 billion from state coffers in fraudulent tax claims. It was the Klyuev Group that attorney Sergei Magnitsky exposed after one of his clients, Hermitage Capital, was raided and its corporate documents pilfered in order to defraud the Russian state of $230 million in a sham corporate tax refund—a refund which was processed in a single day by the co-conspirators themselves. After Magnitsky exposed it, the Klyuev Group had him framed, tortured, and murdered, then blamed for the crime. The substance of this new video, all obtained through Magnitsky’s relentless legal work and backed by bank, state, and airline records, is both the reason for his death as well as his testament. All the evidence corroborating what Magnitsky uncovered can be accessed at the Russian Untouchables website. What follows is a precis of the film.
Dmitry Klyuev was a petty crook who was hired in 2002 by Igor Sagiryan, the president of Renaissance Capital, one of Moscow’s most prominent investment firms, to act as a “tax advisor who had skills in arranging tax refunds through the Russian court system,” according to another Renaissance executive who testified in court. The scheme involved arranging a refund for a company Renaissance had only recently purchased; it was completed within 6 to 8 months.
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Investigator in Magnitsky Case Asks for New Hermitage Arrest
An investigator implicated in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has requested the arrest of another Hermitage employee, the investment fund said Tuesday.
Oleg Silchenko of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Committee has asked Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court to authorize the arrest of London-based Ivan Cherkasov, 42, in connection with the same tax evasion case that led to Magnitsky’s arrest in 2008, Hermitage said in an e-mailed statement.
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Magnitsky case police officials seek London arrest
Russian police officials accused of running an extortion racket want to arrest a London-based businessman on tax evasion charges.
Hermitage Capital, a British investment fund which used to be the largest portfolio investor in Russia until it was hit by a major tax scam, said today that Interior Ministry officials in Moscow were seeking an arrest warrant for Ivan Cherkasov, 41, a senior executive at the company’s UK offices.
Similar charges were brought against Sergei Magnitsky, a whistle-blowing Moscow lawyer who was hired by Hermitage Capital to investigate corrupt state officials. He ended up dying in custody in a case that has become an international cause celebre for those campaigning against official corruption inside Russia.
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Outrage as Russian investigator of high-profile case gets promotion
Interfax
Human rights campaigners are alarmed by reports that Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko has been promoted within police ranks. Silchenko was in charge of the case of Sergey Magnitskiy, a lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund, who died while in remand centre.
“He has been promoted. The whole world condemns his actions but in our country he has been rewarded,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki group, told Interfax on Tuesday [12 October]. She said that Sergey Magnitskiy’s death had not been investigated in Russia. She regretted that rights campaigners had to seek international help.
“It’s terrible. I would like to see such cases investigated by our state. Otherwise we have to demean ourselves in front of the whole world by appealing to the Americans and the European Union asking them to bar access to their countries to people involved in Magnitskiy’s death,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva said. She added that human rights campaigners’ appeals to Western countries with regard to the Magnitskiy case are “a forced measure”. “All our appeals to Russian bodies remained either unanswered or got very noncommittal replies,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva said.
The Hermitage Capital fund voiced its indignation about investigator Oleg Silchenko’s promotion. “Silchenko’s promotion shows the bureaucrats’ defiance toward Russian society. While people are calling for punishment of the Interior Minister employees involved in Magnitskiy’s death, the ministry rewards them for their abuses,” the fund’s statement circulated in Moscow on Tuesday said. [Passage omitted]
It became known on Tuesday that a new military rank, that of lieutenant-colonel, was conferred upon Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko who was in charge of the case of the late lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy. “The rank of lieutenant-colonel was conferred upon Oleg Silchenko as early as last July. This is a planned advance in rank and not a kind of reward,” a source at the law-enforcement bodies told Interfax on Tuesday. hairy girls срочный займ на карту онлайн www.zp-pdl.com https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php онлайн займ
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