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Heritage protests Chaika’s participation in Magnitsky case investigation
Interfax
Representatives of the investment fund Hermitage Capital believe the probe conducted by the Prosecutor General’s Office into the criminal cases involving the activities and death of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky will not yield results.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office has been asked to increase procuratorial supervision, which has been and still remains non-existent. It’s absence led to the inhuman arbitrariness that led to Sergei Magnitsky’s persecution by the officials whom he found to have committed crimes, which lasted for a year, and his death in a detention facility,” Hermitage Capital said in a statement received by Interfax on Wednesday.
The statement alleges that officials from the Prosecutor General’s Office have failed to take measures to stop “illegal actions taken by officials in the Magnitsky case” for 3.5 years.
“In the course of the 12 months spent by Sergei Magnitsky in a detention facility, over 20 complaints were filed with the Prosecutor General’s Office alleging violations of his rights and illegal actions taken by investigators and Interior Ministry officials. All those complaints were either illegally declined or left without a response by the Prosecutor General’s Office,” Hermitage said.
Hermitage Capital recalled that Magnitsky filed an appeal contesting Yury Chaika’s actions as “illegal and violating his [Magnitsky’s] constitutional rights” on August 17, 2009.
“The complaints filed by Magnitsky’s lawyers to Yury Chaika on September 11, 2009, alleging illegal prosecution of an innocent person, physical and psychological pressure to break his will, and denial of medical assistance and surgery was also declined,” the statement says.
For this reason, “Magnitsky’s colleagues are protesting the continuing participation by Prosecutor General Yury Chaika in the investigation into the Magnitsky case.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Marina Gridneva from the Prosecutor Generals Office said the Prosecutor General’s Office will conduct a large-scale probe into all criminal cases related to the work by Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky and his death at the request of the president. hairy girls срочный займ https://zp-pdl.com/get-quick-online-payday-loan-now.php https://zp-pdl.com/fast-and-easy-payday-loans-online.php unshaven girls
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Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika Under Orders to Focus Attention on the Notorius Magnitsky Case
WPS: What the Papers Say
Two criminal proceedings are associated with Magnitsky, lawyer in the employ of Hermitage Capital Management who died behind the bars. One of them concerns criminal charges pressed against Magnitsky himself, the investigation is carried out by the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Committee. The other deals with circumstances of his demise in prison, investigated by the Russian Investigative Committee. The Prosecutor General’s Office is supposed to run a check on both investigations.
It should be noted that the Prosecutor General’s Office completed examination of the former criminal proceedings on the request from the Russian Investigative Committee earlier this week. It said it had uncovered no violations. Three days later, Medvedev told Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika to “boost procuracy supervision” and run another check. Meeting with his American counterpart Barack Obama last week, the president had been reminded of the importance the U.S. Administration was attaching to impartial investigation of the lawyer’s death.
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights Michael H. Pozner made a statement in the meantime. He said that the U.S. Administration welcomed the judiciary reforms and reorganization of law enforcement agencies launched in Russia but was distressed by the lack of progress in the investigation of Magnitsky’s death.
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