Lawyers accuse Magnitsky investigator of exceeding powers – Hermitage

Interfax

The Moscow Bar Association has rejected a request by a Russian investigator, who asked for a defense attorney to be appointed for the family of late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky against their will, the company said.

“Article 51 of the Russian Penal Code does not stipulate the provision of legal aid in appointing an attorney for the accused. The Bar Association does not provide any particular lawyer by the appointment of preliminary investigation officers,” head of the bar association Alla Zhivina said in a letter to Moscow Central District’s investigator Boris Kibis.

An extract from the document was contained in a Hermitage press release obtained by Interfax on Friday.

“The bar’s letter to investigator Kibis also points out that he exceeded his powers by naming a specific lawyer he would like to ‘appoint’ for the Magnitsky relatives against their will,” the investment fund said.

Last Tuesday, Hermitage said that Natalya Magnitsky, the mother of Sergei Magnitsky who died in custody in 2009, asked President of the Moscow Lawyers’ Chamber Genri Reznik to protect her from the police’s pressure coming in the form of appointing for her a lawyer, Yelena Khokhobaya.

Magnitsky died at Moscow’s Butyrka pretrial detention center on November 16, 2009, while awaiting trial on tax evasion charges.

Human rights defenders claimed that prison medics and law enforcement officers are to blame for his death that caused a huge public outcry in Russia and abroad.

On July 4, 2011, the Investigative Committee announced the results of an additional forensic examination. As a result, criminal charges were filed against Butyrka doctors Dmitry Kratov (“negligence”) and Larisa Litvinova (“causing death by inadvertence”).

The Kremlin Human Rights Council on July 5 2011 handed a report on an independent probe into Magnitsky’s death to President Dmitry Medvedev.

In Aught 2011, in view of the Constitutional Court’s ruling obliging the investigators to inquire about the relatives’ attitude to the closure of the criminal prosecution of the deceased person for non-rehabilitating reasons, the Prosecutor General’s Office revoked its resolution to end the criminal case against Magnitsky.

Subsequently, the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Department (the successor of the ministry’s Investigative Committee) resumed the investigation into this case but appointed new investigators to do the job. This decision was appealed, but the appeal was not considered, which caused Magnitsky’s mother to file a complaint with a court. Moscow’s Tverskoi district court rejected the complaint, and the Moscow City Court upheld this decision. hairy girl buy over the counter medicines https://zp-pdl.com/apply-for-payday-loan-online.php https://zp-pdl.com/get-a-next-business-day-payday-loan.php unshaven girls