Colonel Natalya Vinogradova
Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of the Interior Ministry colonel Natalya Vinogradova, who participated in the investigation of investment fund Hermitage Capital of lawyer Magnitsky may be involved in receiving a bribe of 40 thousand dollars for the renewal of terminating the criminal case, said Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov, in his statement sent to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.
In 2008, the bribe, divided into tranches, Vinogradova, who had the name of Shcherbakova and then worked in a methodical control of the Interior Ministry met with the member of the “Guild of Lawyers of Moscow,” Vladimir Podolyakin. In 2003, the lawyer involved in client assets under the Moscow factory “Stekloagregat.” The case of forgery in the privatization was investigating at the police department of the Southern District, and to achieve the seizure of the plant, Podolyakina requsted Vinogradova to help him. After giving her a total of 40 thousand dollars, the case was sent to the main investigation department of the Moscow police, but the property has not been arrested. Then Vladimir Podolyakin asked Natalya Vinogradova to back money. After refusing, he went to the police. According to Kirill Kabanov, this is not the only accusation against N.Vinogradova.
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Investigative Committee officer bribed to reopen Magnitsky’s case
Shortly after the first people were accused in the death of lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, there is already one more person suspected of misconduct.
Human rights activists claim that the deputy head of the Investigative Committee, Colonel Natalia Vinogradova, may have received $40,000 for reopening the case against Magnitsky, the Vedomosti newspaper reported.
Vinogradova used to be the boss of an investigator dealing with Magnitsky’s case in 2008, but it was in fact she who made all decisions regarding the lawyer.
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Doctors’ NGO Says Magnitsky’s Death Documentation Incomplete
The U.S.-based organization Physicians for Human Rights says it is concerned by the official documentation related to the death in jail of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports.
Magnitsky, an attorney for the investment firm Hermitage Capital, died in pretrial detention in November 2009. Officials said he died of heart failure. Human rights activists and his former colleagues, however, say he died because he was denied medical treatment.
On July 19, Physicians for Human Rights issued its report on Magnitsky’s death based on 44 documents provided by his relatives. The documents include Magnitsky’s letters to his family and his written requests to the management of the detention center to provide him with medical treatment.
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Magnitsky Gives Financial Center a Boost
Russian authorities took a major step in early July toward fulfilling their goal of creating an international financial center in Moscow. In fact, it was possibly the most significant step since the idea was first announced. Namely, they published the results of a public review of the case concerning the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pretrial detention center. President Dmitry Medvedev had ordered the investigation. The report released by the president’s human rights council names individuals within the Interior Ministry, prosecutor’s office, Federal Tax Service, court system and prison who were responsible for Magnitsky’s death. That is not the end of the story — nobody has been arrested — but it is real progress.
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Magnitsky Case: Blemish on Russian-United States Relation
The Magnitsky case is at the center of the Russian-United States negotiations.
Death of the lawyer, investigating a case of large-scale tax machinations, became yet another obstacle in the relations between Moscow and Washington.
This question was discussed at top level during the visit of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Washington last week.
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“No Place to Retreat to”
Vedomosti
The criminal case relating to the death of Hermitage Foundation lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a prison hospital on 16 November 2009, is beginning to acquire specific outlines. The Investigations Committee has charged Dmitriy Kratov, deputy chief of the Butyrka holding center, with negligence and prison doctor Larisa Litvinova with causing death by negligence.
There were definitely more people who made decisions and issued orders, so the list of players in the case, which consists of two individuals, looks too much like “scapegoating.” Nevertheless yesterday’s [18 July] statement by the Investigations Committee should be regarded as a big step forward given all the strength of the resistance from the guardians of the honor of uniforms and judges’ robes, who persistently attempted to prove the legality of Magnitskiy’s imprisonment and incarceration. It is a big step forward, but only the first step. Investigators are promising to call to account “other officials irrespective of the posts that they have held previously and currently.” The progress of the trial will demonstrate how possible this is given the current system of relations between the branches of power.
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Accused doctors are ‘scapegoats’, Magnitsky’s boss claims
As the Russian media reported criminal charges against two prison doctors supposedly responsible for Sergei Magnitsky’s death, his old boss is not wholly convinced.
“While I’m sure these doctors were sadistic sociopaths for what they did to Sergei, I’m sure they were taking orders from investigators higher up,” Bill Browder told The Moscow News, minutes after a Moscow court turned down a request from Natalia Magnitskaya, the dead man’s mother, to get tissue samples for independent examination.
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Report on Lawyer’s Death Provides a Chance for Medvedev to Redeem Himself
Even by the dubious standards of the Russian system of justice, the Sergei Magnitsky case is an outrage. Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison in November 2009 after 11 months in custody. He was arrested by senior police officials who had fraudulently seized control of assets of the U.K.-based Hermitage investment fund and had thereby secured a $230 million tax refund – the largest in Russian history. Magnitsky, an attorney, was working on behalf of Hermitage to recover the assets. In an appalling reversal of fate, Magnitsky himself was accused of tax fraud.
On 5 July President Dmitry Medvedev heard a report from his Council on Civil Society and Human Rights. The report covered a broad range of topics, from terrorism in the North Caucasus to children’s rights. Buried in the middle of the report, which was orally presented to Medvedev by council members, were their findings on the Magnitsky case. Their material was explosive. Not only did they confirm that Magnitsky had been illegally detained and denied medical treatment, they also revealed that immediately before his death he had been beaten by eight guards in the medical facility to which he had been transferred – and where he had again been denied medical treatment. This final tragic detail had not previously been known. It is an almost unbelievably cruel footnote to an already horrific tale.
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Investigators refuse to hand over Magnitsky’s DNA to his mother
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Monday declared legal investigators’ refusal to give the DNA of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in police custody, to his mother for a medical examination.
Magnitsky’s mother wanted investigators to provide her with her late son’s DNA to carry out an independent genetic examination to find out the cause of his death as she did not believe the official version.
Magnitsky, a former lawyer for Hermitage Capital investment fund, died after almost a year in Moscow’s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in November 2009.
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