Investigation of Magnitsky’s Death ‘Inadequate’ – U.S.
Russia’s investigation into the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been “inadequate,” U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said.
“The investigation into the circumstances of Magnitsky’s death has been inadequate and has failed to produce justice,” Nuland said.
“We continue to call on Russian authorities to conduct a genuine investigation, to prosecute and punish those responsible for Magnitsky’s death,” she added.
Arrested on tax evasion charges just days after accusing police investigators in a $230 million tax refund fraud, Magnitsky died after almost a year in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in Moscow in November 2009.
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Russia drops charges against doctor in Magnitsky case
Russia said Monday it had dropped charges against a doctor implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, sparking accusations that the authorities had no interest in seeking justice in the case.
Larisa Litvinova was one of only two people, both prison doctors, to be charged after a long-running and high-profile investigation into what activists see as one of Russia’s most outrageous post-Soviet rights violations.
Magnitsky died in 2009 at the age of 37 from untreated medical conditions including acute pancreatis after being held in a notoriously squalid prison during a fraud probe against his client, US investment firm Hermitage Capital.
“The Investigative Committee has decided to drop the criminal case against doctor and laboratory assistant at the pre-trial detention centre, Larisa Litvinova,” investigators said in a statement said.
It cited “the elapsing of the statute of limitations,” saying a new law had come into force since the probe began, meaning that investigators had to bring a case to trial within two years.
Litvinova was charged last August with causing death by negligence, while her boss, the detention centre’s deputy medical chief Dmitry Kratov, was charged with negligence.
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Russia Drops Case Against Doctor In Magnitsky Case
Russia’s top investigative body dropped charges against a prison doctor in the death of imprisoned lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The Investigative Committee said Monday that a two-year statute of limitations ran out on prosecuting former prison doctor Larisa Litvinova on criminal negligence charges. She was in charge of overseeing Magnistky’s health in the weeks before he died in custody in November 2009 while suffering from untreated pancreatitis.
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times each reported the story.
The death of Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management who has been lionized around the world as a martyr and a whistleblower while in the hands of Russian authorities has been a source of friction between the U.S. and Russia, even as President Barack Obama sought a “reset” of relations between the two countries since he came into office.
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Magnitsky memorial meeting held in Moscow
Several dozen people got together in Moscow on Sunday to mark the 40th birthday of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for British hedge fund Hermitage Capital who died in jail in 2009 after being denied essential medical assistance.
Those present were shown a film about Magnitsky’s life and death, and many of them took the floor, Solidarnost (Solidarity) opposition coalition spokeswoman Olga Shorina told Interfax.
Those who attended the event included Magnitsky’s mother, Natalya Magnitskaya, People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS) Co-Chairman Boris Nemtsov, and rights defender Valery Borshchev.
Magnitsky, who had his birthday on April 8, was charged with tax evasion. He died in a detention center in Moscow on November 16, 2009. Later a criminal investigation was launched into his death.
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Russia drops charges against jail doctor over death of anti-corruption lawyer
As relatives of Sergei Magnitsky commemorated what would have been the Russian lawyer’s 40th birthday on Sunday, it emerged that authorities had dropped a negligence case against one of the doctors who treated him in prison.
Mr Magnitsky, a lawyer for the investment fund Hermitage Capital, died in a Russian jail in 2009 after he was accused of perpetrating a fraud he claimed to have uncovered. He died after being refused proper treatment for a pancreas condition. An official report suggested he was beaten before he died. But only two medical staff have been charged with any crimes and the Russian authorities have even begun a posthumous prosecution of Mr Magnitsky.
His lawyers say Larisa Litvinova, the doctor in charge of Mr Magnitsky at the Butyrka prison hospital, refused him basic tests and treatment that could have saved his life. She had been charged with negligence, but the case has been dropped, leaving one other prison doctor as the only person facing charges in the case. “Over two years after he died, not a single person has been prosecuted for torture, murder, or the fraud that he uncovered,” William Browder, the head of Hermitage Capital, said.
Mr Browder is pushing for the US and other countries to adopt the Magnitsky Act, which would impose financial sanctions and deny visas to 60 Russian officials believed to be complicit in the case.
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Russian party leader, rights activist doubt Magnitskiy case will be investigated
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
The discontinuation of criminal proceedings against Butyrskiy remand centre doctor Larisa Litvinova in the case of the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy is unacceptable, Russian opposition party Yabloko leader Sergey Mitrokhin has said, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax on 9 April.
Mitrokhin said: “This is unacceptable not only because this is a loud case but also because this is the government’s crime against a citizen. If such cases are closed so easily, then this means that criminals are simply being shielded.”
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Magnitsky Doctor Cleared of Charges
RIA Novosti
Prosecutors have dropped negligence charges against a doctor at the pre-trial detention facility where 37-year-old lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died because the statute of limitations has expired, Hermitage Capital, reported on Monday.
Larisa Litvinova was charged with negligence contibuting to Magnitsky’s death.
Magnitsky died after almost a year in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in Moscow in November 2009. He had been arrested on tax evasion charges just days after accusing police investigators in a $230 million tax refund fraud.
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Case closed in Russian jail death
BBC
Charges have been dropped against a doctor in the case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail amid claims of torture and neglect.
Larisa Litvinova was one of two doctors facing charges. The case was dropped because the statute of limitations had expired, reports said.
Mr Magnitsky, who worked for a Western investment fund, was detained after accusing officials of tax fraud.
He died after “deliberate and inhumane neglect”, a report found.
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