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