Russian corruption scandal: A trail leads to Switzerland
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A story like a thriller: A Russia lawyer, Sergei magnitsky, uncovers a huge tax fraud and accused Russian police officers and judges of being involved. Instead of investigating his claims, the police officers take him to prison, where he is being treated inhumanely and dies. A portion of the stolen money was laundered though banks accounts of Credit Suisse.
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Medvedev’s Big Presser Disappoints
President Dmitry Medvedev’s much-awaited first “big” news conference on Wednesday left hundreds of journalists and many pundits disappointed and confused.
With less than 10 months remaining before the 2012 presidential election, Medvedev shed no light on his plans. He didn’t even get asked about the election until a mind-boggling 15 minutes into the news conference — after taking questions that included one from an Avtoradio reporter about Moscow’s parking problems.
“Finally you asked the question,” Medvedev quipped when a Nezavisimaya Gazeta reporter asked whether he would run for a second term.
But to the noticeable disappointment of nearly everybody in the packed Skolkovo Business School hall, he dodged a direct answer, explaining instead that politics were governed by “certain technologies” that should be respected.
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Medvedev meets the press
Dmitry Medvedev, the blogging, tweeting, iPad-carrying president, gave his first full-scale news conference Wednesday, bringing 800 journalists to his favored tech-savvy business school, where the eternal Russia of the almighty czars was as powerful a presence as the high-speed Internet access.
Though Medvedev talks frequently of his vision for a modern Russia, with strong democratic institutions and a high-tech economy, he was given question after question suggesting little happens in this country unless the ruler in the Kremlin decrees it, just as it has always been.
Yearly car inspections are a senseless formality — how will you change this? (He’s drawing up a new law.) Local officials show you perfect villages — do you understand how people really live? (Yes, from blogging and reading the Internet.) Our veterans are suffering — can’t you guarantee each of them an apartment? (He issued a decree on that in 2008.) And what are you going to do about the parking problem in Moscow? (He has talked to the mayor.)
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Is BP’s latest fiasco evidence of Russian law or Russian chess?
Are we to believe President Dmitry Medvedev, who says that the collapse of BP’s blockbuster oil deal in Russia is all a simple matter of the rule of law — that CEO Bob Dudley was violating a contract, and that isn’t done in Russia? One might reply, Since when? But this is what is baffling about the latest turn in BP’s long saga of suffering — one does not know whether Russia has suddenly gone legal, or whether we are watching a dimension of the run-up to the country’s 2012 presidential election.
For BP, this was all about recovering its mettle from last year’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Earning street cred in Big Oil isn’t the same as a lot of other businesses — there is comparatively little in the way of razzamatazz, branding or product breakthroughs. Instead, it’s all about being quick off the mark in acquiring property and finding hydrocarbons. Yet even there, as BP has learned, the going isn’t what it used to be: Dudley was plenty fast pivoting off the spill, and obtaining a superlatively rich new deal to help develop Russia’s Arctic. The details were tantalizing — already the most active Big Oil company on the Russia patch, BP would double-down by forming a marriage-type arrangement with state-owned Rosneft. The two companies would swap a significant number of shares, and then explore the extravagantly rich oil fields of the Arctic. Tens of billions of barrels of oil were at stake, and at once BP seemed to be back in the game.
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Cold comfort for Magnitsky cause
A trio of positive signals from Russian authorities offers scant cause for celebration among friends and family of dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
“The investigation has made significant progress,” President Medvedev told journalists in a televised question and answer session on Wednesday afternoon. He added that Russian investigators are to help Swiss counterparts and that the circumstances and actual causes of Magnitsky’s death “will be known soon.”
Suspect tax officials will be inspected closely, he added something that Magnitsky’s colleagues have been demanding since the lawyer’s death in custody in November 2009.
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No Entry: Will Congress take a tough line on human rights abusers in Russia?
In 2007, a Russian businessman named Oleg Derapaska applied for a multiple-entry visa to enter the United States. Derapaska certainly had some impressive credentials—he is one of the richest men in Russia, with a fortune of $10.7 billion as of 2010, which he made initially by cornering Russia’s aluminum market. He is well traveled, and is the owner of a £25 million home in the Belgravia neighborhood of London. The State Department nevertheless turned him down (though it did grant him a one-time entry visa in 2009). Derapaska’s visa troubles stemmed from allegations that he also has close ties to Russia’s mafia, according to the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets. Although he has been seeking the multiple-entry visa ever since—last year, the Russian foreign ministry even hired the Endeavor Group, the same lobbying firm that represents Angelina Jolie, to help secure him one—so far his efforts have been futile.
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Browder Given 11 Hours to Fly to Moscow
Accusing investigators of a political crackdown, Hermitage Capital said its head, William Browder, was given 11 hours’ notice to travel from London to Moscow for questioning – even though he has been banned from Russia.
The summons is a clumsy attempt to create a pretext for issuing an arrest warrant for Browder, the fund said in a letter published online Monday.
Browder was banned from entering Russia in 2005 on unexplained “security grounds,” which means he could not travel to Moscow for questioning, said the letter, which is dated Sunday and addressed to top officials, including Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Hermitage Addresses Top Prosecutors With Corruption Allegations
Hermitage Capital accused investigators of a political crackdown on its management, saying the officials ordered the fund’s head to arrive in Moscow from London for questioning in a mere 11 hours.
The interrogation is a clumsy attempt at creating a pretext for issuing an arrest warrant for Hermitage head William Browder, the fund said in a letter released online Monday.
Browder was banned from entering Russia in 2005 on unexplained “security grounds,” which means he could not travel to Moscow for questioning, said the letter, which is dated Sunday and addressed to top officials, including Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Russian police escalate case against William Browder
Lawyers for William Browder, chief executive of UK-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management, have attacked Russian police for the “flagrant misuse of the criminal justice system” in attempting to summon him to Moscow for questioning.
Mr Browder has been fighting a campaign against corrupt state officials for allegedly stealing $230m (£140m) from the Russian taxpayer and causing the death in custody of his colleague Sergei Magnitsky, a investigative lawyer.
The summons came from one of the officers accused of the alleged crimes and did not allegedly go through the proper channels.
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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
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