Lawyers for Magnitsky family to protest investigator actions

Interfax

The lawyers for the relatives of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a detention facility, will not become familiar with the tax evasion case against him.

“We will not read the case materials because the investigation was conducted and the case was resumed with violations of the law,” Nikolai Gorokhov, a lawyer for Magnitsky’s mother, told Interfax.

Gorokhov said the investigator’s decision to stop working on the tax case against Magnitsky will be contested. “We will file another complaint against the investigator’s actions,” the lawyer said.

The lawyer did not make any predictions about the investigator’s actions and their ability to bring the Magnitsky case to court. “I cannot predict their actions because they are doing everything illegally,” he said.

Gorokhov said Magnitsky’s relatives expect their complaint to lead to a reversal of the decision to resume the tax evasion case against him.

Hermitage Capital said earlier on Tuesday that the investigators had completed the work on the Magnitsky tax case. Under the current legislation, an indictment is to be issued and the case is to be forwarded to court after the relatives become familiar with the case materials.

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

Human rights activists insist 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”). займы на карту срочный займ www.zp-pdl.com https://zp-pdl.com/get-quick-online-payday-loan-now.php hairy woman