Illness That Sergei Magnitsky Developed in Pre-Trial Detention

The following are official medical documents that describe in detail the illnesses that Sergei Magnitsky developed while he was in pretrial detention

• Letter from the Head of the Medical Unit of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, V. Stepanov, to Magnitsky’s lawyers confirming that Magnitsky was diagnosed on 1 July 2009 with calculous cholecystitis and prescribed a further examination (ultrasound) and surgery within one month (14 July 2009)
• Letter from the Head of Butyrka, D. Komnov, and the Head of Butyrka Medical Unit (D. Kratov) to Magnitsky’s lawyers stating that Magnitsky’s echocardiogram reading was normal and confirming that his conditions of gallstones and cholecystitis and pancreatitis were in an acute stage (11 November 2009)
• Letter from F. Tagiev, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison to Magnitsky’s lawyers stating that Magnitsky arrived from Butyrka to the hospital at Matrosskaya Tishina on 16 Novemer 2009 with a possible diagnosis of gallstones, calculous cholecystitis and acute pancreatitis (3 December 2009)
• Certificate of Confirmation from F. Tagiev, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, and S. Mazurov, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Hospital, stating that Magnitsky had arrived on 16 November 2009 with a diagnosis of gallstones, acute calculous cholecystitis and acute pancreatitis (4 December 2009)
• 16 November 2009. Transfer to Butyrka, Medical Emergency Ambulance Records
• 20 November 2009. Заявление в Следственный отдел по Преображенскому райдну СУ СК при прокуратуре РФ следователю Левину Дмитрию Александровичу от адвоката Орешниковой Елены Александровны

 
Response from Head of Butyrka’s Medical Unit (14 July 2009)
Letter from the Head of the Medical Unit of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, V. Stepanov, to Magnitsky’s lawyers confirming that Magnitsky was diagnosed on 1 July 2009 with calculous cholecystitis and was prescribed a further examination (ultrasound) and surgery within one month.
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Response from Head of Butyrka (11 November 2009)
Letter from the Head of Butyrka, D. Komnov, and the Head of Butyrka Medical Unit, D. Kratov, to Magnitsky’s lawyers stating that Magnitsky’s echocardiogram reading was normal and confirming that his conditions of gallstones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis were in an acute stage.
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Letter from Head of Matrosskaya Tishina (3 December 2009)
Letter from F. Tagiev, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, to Magnitsky’s lawyers stating that Magnitsky arrived from Butyrka to the hostpial at Matrosskaya Tishina on 16 November 2009 with a possible diagnosis of gallstones, calculous cholecystitis and acute pancreatitis.
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Certification of Confirmation from Matrosskaya Tishina (4 December 2009)
Certificate of confirmation from F. Tagiev, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, and S. Mazurov, Head of Matrosskaya Tishina Hospital, stating that Magnitsky had arrived on 16 November 2009, with a diagnosis of gallstones, acute calculous cholecystitis and acute pancreatitis.
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16 November 2009. Transfer to Butyrka, Medical Emergency Ambulance Records, stating that the ambulance had to wait at Butyrka for “2 hours and 35 minutes”
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