CAMERON WARNED OVER RUSSIA LINKS
PRIME Minister David Cameron is being warned to exercise caution when urging British companies to invest in Russia.
The warning from top financier Bill Browder comes as Cameron prepares to visit Russia today on a trade visit. He will also be meeting Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Browder, whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and murdered in a Russian jail, said: “If he promotes investment in Russia he is putting British money and lives in harm’s way.
“He needs to create consequences for Russian officials who have victimised British investors before luring new investors into Russia.”
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David Cameron urged to get tough with Russia over Sergei Magnitsky’s death
PM should use Kremlin visit to raise the case of whistleblower lawyer’s death, say politicians from US and UK.
Former US presidential candidate John McCain is among a number of senior American politicians urging David Cameron to bar from Britain dozens of Russian officials implicated in the controversial death of a whistleblower.
The prime minister arrives in Moscow on Monday, his first visit to the Kremlin, amid mounting international pressure to follow the lead of the US by introducing visa bans for individuals linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The 37-year-old was working for a British company when he exposed the biggest tax fraud in Russian history. After accusing Interior Ministry officials, Magnitsky was arrested and died in police custody after being denied essential medical care. Investigators say the father of two was tortured and badly beaten in the hours before his death in November 2009.
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London Rally: The True Faces of Russia
Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center
Where: London, UK; the South Bank near London Eye.
When: Monday, September 12th, 2011; 10 am
On September 12th, the day the Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, vists Russia, a political movement “Speak Up!” will hold a peaceful campaign, dedicated to his visit. Below is a press release from the organization announcing the protest:
If we could choose between free and fair rights of Russia’s citizens and improved international relations and Russia’s economy, we would undoubtedly go for freedom. And we are kindly asking the UK Prime Minister to consider this when making decisions about short term vs. strategic, long term mutual economic benefits between Russia and the UK.
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‘The British government must confront Russia over human rights abuses’
An influential British businessmen has accused David Cameron of going soft on Russia and of naively treating the Kremlin with kid gloves out of a misplaced fear of Moscow.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on the eve of the Prime Minister’s historic visit to Russia tomorrow, William Browder, the founder of UK-based Hermitage Capital Management, said the British government had shied away from tackling Russia on human rights issues and claimed that the Kremlin was laughing at Mr Cameron behind his back.
“The government needs to be realistic about dealing with Russia. But it doesn’t seem to understand its major strength in dealing with Russian officials,” Mr Browder charged.
“If they think that making nice with the Russians will solve any problems, it won’t. The Russians just laugh at anyone who is approaching them from a position of weakness.”
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Scam Patrol: Following Moscow’s Money
Russian law enforcement jumped into action after we highlighted the sudden wealth enjoyed by some Moscow tax officials last spring. Their bureaus had handled a $230 million tax scam that victimized the hedge-fund firm Hermitage Capital and led to the 2009 prison death of Hermitage’s whistle-blowing lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky (“Crime and Punishment in Putin’s Russia,” Barron’s, April 18).
Prosecutors and police say they are reopening their criminal investigation…of Magnitsky, two years after the young lawyer died in the custody of the very officials he accused of participating in the tax scam. In pressing their case against the dead man, the cops have summoned Magnitsky’s elderly mother for interrogation. And they’ve vowed to ignore the findings of a human-rights council appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev, which concluded that Magnitsky had been framed by his arresting officers and beaten to death in jail.
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Time to shove off
The Soviet Union was undermined by stagnation and a sense of hopelessness. Is the same thing happening again?
IN 2000 a group of young Russians, just back from their studies in America, started the website WelcomeHome. Ru. “Life in Russia is becoming more normal. It is possible to live here, make a career and bring up children. Many of those who had left have come home. We are among them,” the site read. It was a typical reaction by young Russian professionals to the growth, opportunities and promise of stability from Vladimir Putin, the new president. Soon, after years of capital flight, money started to flow back into Russia.
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Jamison Firestone, “We reject the option, where we do not demand that the people who killed Magnitsky go to prison”
(Translated from Original Russian)
Hermitage Capital’s lawyers demand a criminal case against the former head of the Moscow Tax Inspectorate № 28 of Olga Stepanova. Jamison Firestone (Firestone Dunken), colleague Magnitsky, answered questions from RFI.
RFI: Jamison, good morning. Attorneys «Hermitage Capital» call to investigate a new crime of tax official’s Olga Stepanova. Sergei Magnitsky has helped uncover a crime, was arrested and died. Are not you afraid that history may repeat itself?
Jamison Firestone: Of course, we’re afraid of this. But there is a problem: there is a group of people who systematically stole huge amounts of money – nearly $ 400 million – from the budget, and to hide it, they killed a man. And we just categorically reject the option where we do not require that the people who killed Sergei go to prison. So, of course, it is frightening work; But on the other hand, people killed a man, a man whom Russia should recognize as a hero, and these people should be held responsible for his murder. And in order for them to answer for this, we continue to work.
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Hermitage Capital: Tax Officials Stole $33M
Hermitage Capital Management on Thursday released a new exposé about officials implicated in the death of its lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, accusing them of siphoning off 1 billion rubles ($33 million) of state money through illegal tax refunds.
The complaint, filed with the Investigative Committee, says a Moscow district tax inspection office, headed at the time by Olga Stepanova, authorized the refunds in seven tranches to a small company called TekhProm in 2007 and 2008.
This is the same tax inspection office that Magnitsky accused of separately embezzling 5.4 billion rubles in a similar scheme in 2006 and 2007.
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UK firm presents fresh justification for EU sanctions on Russian officials
News in Brief: UK investment firm Hermitage Capital says it has evidence of a fresh $42 million tax fraud committed by the same Russian official it believes orchestrated the murder of its former employee, Sergei Magnitsky. The news comes amid the company’s push for the EU to impose sanctions on Magnitsky’s killers. быстрые займы на карту hairy girl https://zp-pdl.com/fast-and-easy-payday-loans-online.php https://zp-pdl.com/online-payday-loans-in-america.php займ онлайн на карту без отказа
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- Sergei Magnitsky
- Why was Sergei Magnitsky arrested?
- Sergei Magnitsky’s torture and death in prison
- President’s investigation sabotaged and going nowhere
- The corrupt officers attempt to arrest 8 lawyers
- Past crimes committed by the same corrupt officers
- Petitions requesting a real investigation into Magnitsky's death
- Worldwide reaction, calls to punish those responsible for corruption and murder
- Complaints against Lt.Col. Kuznetsov
- Complaints against Major Karpov
- Cover up
- Press about Magnitsky
- Bloggers about Magnitsky
- Corrupt officers:
- Sign petition
- Citizen investigator
- Join Justice for Magnitsky group on Facebook
- Contact us
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