Jail Officials Targeted Over Magnitsky
Investigators said Monday that a criminal case has been opened into two prison officials in connection with the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and that they face possible charges of negligence.
Larisa Litvinova, former medical official at Moscow’s Butyrskaya pretrial prison, faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted of unintentional manslaughter by breach of professional duty, the Investigative Committee said.
Her former superior, Dmitry Kratov, may be jailed for five years if charged with negligence that resulted in death, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said, Interfax reported.
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Russia Starts Probe Into Lawyer’s Death
Russian investigators on Monday launched a criminal investigation of two prison officials—one of them a doctor—in the case of the 2009 death of a hedge-fund lawyer who was jailed after alleging officers of Russia’s Interior Ministry took part in a $230 million tax fraud.
Human-rights activists hailed the probe as a possible sign of progress, noting that it was the first time government officials specifically blamed anyone since Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a Moscow jail.
More criminal cases are possible, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the government’s leading investigative organ.
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Probe launched against Russian jail officials
Russian investigators launched a criminal probe Monday against two prison officials for their suspected role in the death of a jailed lawyer, who claimed to have uncovered a $230 million tax fraud by corrupt Interior Ministry officers.
This is the first time Russian officials have specifically identified anyone in relation to the death of Sergei Magnitsky in November 2009 after the pancreatitis he developed in prison went untreated.
But the announcement has done little to appease the lawyer’s supporters, who accuse the authorities of failing to investigate the real culprits.
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More officials to be sued over Magnitsky death
The Russian presidential civil society and human rights council does not rule out that more law enforcement and state security officials could be prosecuted over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody, National Anticorruption Committee head Kirill Kabanov said on Monday.
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against two former pre-trial detention center staff Larisa Litvinova and Dmitry Kratov.
Litvinova, who was Magnitsky’s doctor, is charged with causing the lawyer’s death by neglecting to render professional care. Her superior at the detention center, Kratov, is charged with negligence.
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Russia Says It Will Try Jail Doctors in ’09 Case
New York Times
Twenty months after a 37-year-old lawyer died in pretrial detention after repeatedly requesting medical care, the authorities on Monday announced that criminal cases have been opened against two former prison doctors in connection with his death.
The announcement came as lawmakers in several countries threatened to impose sanctions on officials linked to the prosecution of the lawyer, Sergei L. Magnitsky, who had been drawn into a feud between Russian officials and his employer, Hermitage Capital, an investment fund based in London.
Russia’s top investigative body said the two suspects in Mr. Magnitsky’s death were Dr. Larisa Litvinova, who oversaw Mr. Magnitsky’s treatment during the last weeks of his life; and Dr. Dmitri Kratov, formerly the chief medical officer of Butyrskaya Prison.
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Two Arrested In Magnitsky Case
It has been reported this afternoon that the Investigative Committee has charged two former prison doctors in connection with the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the Hermitage Capital lawyer who died in pretrial detention in 2009, after being denied treatment for pancreatitis. Since Magnitsky’s death a barrage of criticism has been launched against the Kremlin for its failure to investigate the death of the corruption-fighting lawyer, who claimed to have discovered a $230 million tax fraud case that involved high-ranking officials.
Some will greet the news of the arrests as a positive step forward, hot on the heels of the Russian Human Rights Council’s report on the affair, published ten days ago, which concluded that Magnitsky may have been beaten to death. The report’s apparent acknowledgement of official wrongdoing in the matter has been hailed by Hermitage Capital as an admission of guilt.
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Prison doctors charged with causing Magnitsky’s death
Two former prison doctors have been accused of negligence resulting in the death of Sergey Magnitsky while he was on trial over large-scale tax fraud.
Among the accused are the doctor who was responsible for Magnitsky’s treatment, Larisa Litvinova, and the former deputy director of the detention center and Litvinova’s former boss, Dmitry Kratov. Both suspects were fired from the Butyrskaya prison soon after Magnitsky’s death in 2009.
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Congress Needs Human Rights Assurances To Support Russia MFN Vote
There is a growing sense in Washington that members of Congress will need assurances on human rights if they are to agree to grant Russia permanent most-favored nation (MFN) status, which is necessary if U.S. companies are to fully benefit from Russia acceding to the World Trade Organization.
In a July 7 statement, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) argued that extending permanent MFN and ushering Russia into the WTO is “simply not an option” until Russia is pressed to improve its human rights record. A congressional aide said this sentiment is shared by other members of Congress.
According to an informed source, the White House opposes directly linking improvements in Russia’s human rights situation to Russia’s WTO accession, but since January has nonetheless been advancing the idea that Congress should consider separate human rights legislation this year.
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Sergei Magnitsky: Russian officials named as suspects
Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into two prison officials over the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The deputy governor and chief doctor at Butyrskaya prison in Moscow are suspected of negligence causing death.
Magnitsky’s case has become a cause celebre. Arrested after accusing the police of corruption, he was reportedly beaten and denied treatment in jail.
A report has concluded he suffered deliberate neglect and torture.
The group Physicians for Human Rights, on the request of Magnitsky’s family, conducted the first independent medical evaluation of the case.
The report, released on Monday, concluded that he received “inadequate medical treatment”, and that his death was the result of “calculated, deliberate and inhumane neglect”.
It called on the Russian government to accept responsibility under the UN Convention Against Torture.
Different suspects
President Dmitry Medvedev’s human rights council produced a report earlier this month which concluded that there was reasonable suspicion that Magnitsky’s death was triggered by beatings while in police custody.
The report singled out senior interior ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko and prison chief Ivan Prokopenko as being at fault for neglect over the lawyer’s death.
However, these are not the same two officials named by prosecutors on Monday.
They are Larisa Litvinova, chief physician at Butyrskaya prison, and the prison’s deputy chief Dmitry Kratov.
Magnitsky’s former employer told the Associated Press that more powerful people were still being protected.
“The Russian government are desperately trying to create the appearance that they are doing something here, without going after the real guilty parties,” said William Browder, who runs Hermitage Capital Management, for whom Magnitsky was working.
Magnitsky had claimed to have unearthed evidence that implicated the police, officials and bankers in a massive fraud, which used Hermitage as a vehicle.
He was later arrested, himself accused of fraud, and investigated by some of the very same people he had accused of corruption.
He was imprisoned without trial in November 2008, developed pancreatitis in jail but was never properly treated, and died in November 2009, aged 37. займы на карту срочно займ онлайн на карту без отказа https://zp-pdl.com/get-a-next-business-day-payday-loan.php https://zp-pdl.com/how-to-get-fast-payday-loan-online.php займ на карту онлайн
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