No Rule of Law in Russia
In a powerful interview, the former Prime Minister of Russia declares there is little law and order in his country and outlines why it may be dangerous to put your money there.
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Moscow Court Rejects Hermitage Lawsuit
The Moscow Times
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected a request by Hermitage Capital to regain control over three subsidiaries that the fund’s lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suspected had been used by the police to steal government money.
The city’s 10th Arbitration Court of Appeal turned down the lawsuit filed by the fund’s Cyprus-based subsidiaries, Glendora Holdings Limited and Kone Holdings Limited, defense lawyer Oleg Kirilenko told The Moscow Times.
The lawsuit asked the court to confirm the fund’s ownership of the three subsidiaries, which fund managers claim were illegally seized by Moscow police in June 2007.
Hermitage Capital promised to appeal. “This is the sixth attempt by the perpetrators to destroy evidence through the courts over the last two years,” a fund representative said by e-mail. “We intend to appeal in Russia and ultimately take this case to the ECHR [European Court of Human Rights] if necessary.”
Magnitsky, who died in pretrial detention last November, had accused the police of confiscating documents from the three subsidiaries — Riland Ltd. and Parfenion Ltd., 100 percent owned by Glendora Holdings Limited, and Makhaon Ltd., 100 percent owned by Kone Holdings Limited — and handing them over to Pluton Ltd., which was registered as the new owner of the companies in July 2007, according to the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information, a mouthpiece for Russia’s top courts.
Magnitsky said Pluton’s former head Viktor Markelov and a group of police officials used the three subsidiaries to defraud the government of 5.4 billion rubles ($230 million at the 2007 rate) by claiming the return of taxes that had never been paid, the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information said.
Pluton subsequently sold the subsidiaries to Boily Systems Limited and shut down, the agency said.
Moscow’s 10th Arbitration Court of Appeal earlier overturned a ruling by the Moscow region Arbitration Court that declared the July 2007 deals as illegal, the agency said.
Markelov was jailed for five years in April 2009 on charges of stealing 5.4 billion rubles from the government, it said.
Police officials opened a tax evasion investigation into Hermitage Capital lawyer Magnitsky and William Browder, the fund’s head, after they linked the officials and Major General Anatoly Mikhalkin, head of the Moscow police’s tax crimes department, to the 5.4 billion rubles.
Magnitsky, 37, died in a Moscow detention center after officials repeatedly denied him medical treatment for illnesses that he developed while waiting nearly a year for his politically tainted trial to begin.
President Dmitry Medvedev in December fired Mikhalkin and 20 prison officials and ordered a thorough investigation. But nearly a year later, no arrests have been made in connection with the death. займ на карту hairy girls https://zp-pdl.com/fast-and-easy-payday-loans-online.php https://www.zp-pdl.com займы на карту без отказа
Magnitsky Backers Hit for Defamation
The Moscow Times. By Alexandra Taranova.
U.S. lawyer Jamison Firestone, Hermitage Capital head William Browder and Russian opposition activists face possible charges after police opened a defamation investigation at the request of the senior Interior Minister investigator implicated in the prison death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Moscow police opened the inquiry on Aug. 8, days after the investigator, Lieutenant-Colonel Artyom Kuznetsov, filed a complaint with the Fili-Davydkovo police precinct, Gazeta.ru reported Friday, citing precinct officials.
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Russia has made a habit of sheltering lawbreakers from international
Newsweek
In some countries it’s cool to be an outlaw. Jewel thieves are revered in Montenegro. Counterfeiting makes powerful men in North Korea. Likewise, Russia has made a habit of sheltering lawbreakers from international justice.
The latest case revolves around U.K.-based Hermitage Capital tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who charged that crooked Russian cops had used the company in a complex scheme to steal $230 million. In response, Russian authorities jailed him without trial, and he died in detention after 11 months. A bill now pending in the U.S. Congress would impose U.S. visa bans on some 60 Russian officials and policemen involved in the case. Even so, Russia’s Foreign Ministry is standing by the accused and has condemned the bill as “indecent.” Why does Russia stand by its outlaws? Because connected bureaucrats need to cover their own backsides from international scrutiny.
As the Magnitsky case and others like it demonstrate, many of Russia’s government officials could have a lot to lose if their own practices came under the watchful eye of international law enforcement. Then they would have to face justice-not the corrupt, back-scratching, politically motivated parody that exists in Russia, but the real thing.
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Russian activists meet German president, ask for help in Magnitskiy case
ITAR-TASS
Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva has urged the German authorities to introduce visa restrictions for Russian officials involved in the case of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund, Sergey Magnitskiy, who had died in a Moscow detention centre.
Alekseyeva made this appeal in Moscow at a meeting with German President of Christian Wulff with representatives of Russian public organizations today.
“I said that representatives of the German parliament, who had also come to Moscow together with the German president, could consider introducing visa restrictions and restrictions on financial transactions for those who are involved in the Magnitskiy case,” Alekseyeva told Interfax after her meeting with the president of Germany.
According to Alekseyeva, her proposal that Germany should introduce visa restrictions was supported by other participants in the meeting, for instance, editor-in-chief of The News Times newspaper Yevgeniya Albats and editor-in-chief of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper Dmitriy Muratov.
Alekseyeva said that Russian civil activists were seeking international assistance in Magnitskiy case because, in her words, it was not being investigated in Russia.
“We are in favour of simplifying the visa regime between Russia and the EU, but in this case we are talking about individuals whose names are well known,” Alekseyeva said.
In addition, Alekseyeva said that at a meeting with the German president they had discussed the killings of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. “In particular, we said that we still didn’t know who had killed [journalist] Anna Politkovskaya and [human right activist] Natalya Estemirova,” Alekseyeva said.
She said at the meeting that for the second year running the opposition and human rights had been unable to hold a rally in defence of freedom of assembly on Triumfalnaya Ploshchad [Square] in Moscow.
“We applied for permission to hold a rally on Triumfalnaya Ploshchad 11 times and 11 times we were unable to get this square for an hour to hold a rally,” she said.
Alekseyeva said she had come to the meeting with the German president wearing a badge with the inscription 31 in support of Article 31 of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of rallies and marches. займ на карту без отказов круглосуточно займы на карту https://zp-pdl.com/apply-for-payday-loan-online.php https://zp-pdl.com/fast-and-easy-payday-loans-online.php unshaven girl
UK sees human rights as key issue in dialogue with Russia, minister tells NGOs
Interfax
Britain is planning to give priority attention to the issue of human rights protection in the dialogue with Russia, British Foreign Secretary [William Hague] promised the representatives of Russian non-governmental organizations at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday [13 October].
“The investigation of the death of (Hermitage Capital Fund lawyer) Sergeyb Magnitskiy and the case of (former head of the Yukos oil company) Mikhail Khodorkovskiy were mentioned at the meeting,” the leader of the For Human Rights movement, Lev Ponomarev, who was among the participants in the meeting, told Interfax.
“It was mostly us who talked at the meeting, and the minister listened,” he said.
“But at the end of the meeting the minister said that the issue of human rights was fundamental in relations between the states [Russia and the UK]. He said that the British authorities did not view this as interference in the internal affairs of another state. The issue of human rights will be one of the main [issues to be discussed at the talks in Russia], he said,” Ponomarev quoted Hague as saying.
Ponomarev spoke at the meeting about the pressure on opposition and human rights activists in Russia and the situation in Russian prisons.
“Civil [society] activists, human rights defenders and representatives of the opposition are experiencing huge pressure. This is one of the problems in modern Russia,” he said. займы онлайн на карту срочно buy over the counter medicines https://zp-pdl.com www.zp-pdl.com unshaven girl
Outrage as Russian investigator of high-profile case gets promotion
Interfax
Human rights campaigners are alarmed by reports that Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko has been promoted within police ranks. Silchenko was in charge of the case of Sergey Magnitskiy, a lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund, who died while in remand centre.
“He has been promoted. The whole world condemns his actions but in our country he has been rewarded,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki group, told Interfax on Tuesday [12 October]. She said that Sergey Magnitskiy’s death had not been investigated in Russia. She regretted that rights campaigners had to seek international help.
“It’s terrible. I would like to see such cases investigated by our state. Otherwise we have to demean ourselves in front of the whole world by appealing to the Americans and the European Union asking them to bar access to their countries to people involved in Magnitskiy’s death,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva said. She added that human rights campaigners’ appeals to Western countries with regard to the Magnitskiy case are “a forced measure”. “All our appeals to Russian bodies remained either unanswered or got very noncommittal replies,” Lyudmila Alekseyeva said.
The Hermitage Capital fund voiced its indignation about investigator Oleg Silchenko’s promotion. “Silchenko’s promotion shows the bureaucrats’ defiance toward Russian society. While people are calling for punishment of the Interior Minister employees involved in Magnitskiy’s death, the ministry rewards them for their abuses,” the fund’s statement circulated in Moscow on Tuesday said. [Passage omitted]
It became known on Tuesday that a new military rank, that of lieutenant-colonel, was conferred upon Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko who was in charge of the case of the late lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy. “The rank of lieutenant-colonel was conferred upon Oleg Silchenko as early as last July. This is a planned advance in rank and not a kind of reward,” a source at the law-enforcement bodies told Interfax on Tuesday. hairy girls срочный займ на карту онлайн www.zp-pdl.com https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php онлайн займ
Calls grow for Russia to act on lawyer’s death
The Express on Sunday
International pressure is mounting on Russia to bring to justice those responsible for the death in custody of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested while investigating a $230million fraud.
Magnitsky, 37, was working for financier Bill Browder, who heads up UK-based Hermitage Capital.
Last week, Browder travelled to Berlin to seek support from the German government to gain justice for the lawyer. He already has the backing of Britain, America and Poland.
Magnitsky died in prison last November after being held without trial for more than a year on fabricated tax evasion charges. Despite an investigation, no one has been charged in connection with his death.
Mr Browder claims that Hermitage had become the target of a conspiracy in which police and government officials claimed ownership of Hermitage companies in Russia to syphon off $230million in tax rebates. онлайн займы займ срочно без отказов и проверок https://zp-pdl.com/get-quick-online-payday-loan-now.php https://www.zp-pdl.com займ на карту онлайн
USA erwagen Einreiseverbote nach Tod von Anwalt in Moskau
Der Tagesspiegel
Berlin – Auf die Nachricht aus Washington reagierte das russische Au?enministerium emport. Im US-Kongress war in der vergangenen Woche ein Gesetzentwurf eingebracht worden, der ein Einreiseverbot gegen 60 russische Staatsbeamte vorsieht. Sie sollen fur den Tod des Anwalts Sergej Magnitski in einem Moskauer Gefangnis verantwortlich sein. Au?erdem werden sie mit einem massiven Steuerbetrug in Verbindung gebracht. Die Initiative im Kongress wecke Erinnerungen an die Zeit des Kalten Krieges, erklarte das Au?enministerium in Moskau am vergangenen Freitag.
Magnitski hatte den gro?ten Steuerbetrug der russischen Geschichte aufgedeckt. Im Oktober 2008 sagte er gegen zwei Offiziere des
Innenministeriums aus, Artjom Kusnetsow und Pawel Karpow. Einen Monat spater wurde der 36-Jahrige von Beamten festgenommen, die Kusnetsow unterstellt waren. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt arbeitete der Anwalt fur den Investmentfonds Hermitage Capital Management, der seit 1996 in Russland mit gro?em Erfolg aktiv war. Firmenchef William Browder und seine Mitarbeiter recherchierten
Falle von Unterschlagung und Korruption und machten sie offentlich. Plotzlich wurde Browder die Einreise nach Russland verweigert – er galt als “Gefahr fur die nationale Sicherheit”.
Im Juni 2007 durchsuchten Polizisten das Buro von Hermitage in Moskau. Geleitet wurde die Durchsuchung von Kusnetsow. Spater fand Magnitski heraus, dass sich Betruger mit Hilfe von Dokumenten und Siegeln, die von den Beamten sichergestellt worden waren, drei Firmen angeeignet hatten, die Hermitage gehorten. Die neuen “Besitzer” verpflichteten die drei Firmen zur Zahlung angeblich ausstehender Verbindlichkeiten – auch diese Dokumente waren offenbar gefalscht. Doch Hermitage hatte sein Geld langst aus Russland abgezogen, und so betrogen die Tater den russischen Staat: Unter Verweis auf die Verbindlichkeiten erhielten sie eine Steuerruckzahlung von 5,4 Milliarden Rubeln (130 Millionen Euro). Die heutige Justizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger au?erte 2009 in einem Bericht fur den Europarat die Vermutung, dass “dieser koordinierte Angriff die Unterstutzung von hohen Beamten gehabt haben muss”.
Im Gefangnis sei Magnitski enormem physischen und psychischen Druck ausgesetzt worden, sagte Browder dem Tagesspiegel. “Sie wollten ihn zwingen, seine Anschuldigungen gegen die beiden Offiziere zuruckzuziehen und mich und sich selbst zu belasten.” Doch der Anwalt gab nicht nach – und wurde immer schlechter behandelt. Er wurde schwer krank, erhielt aber keine medizinische
Betreuung. Am 16. November 2009 starb Magnitski im Moskauer Gefangnis “Matrosenruhe”. Uber die Todesursache machten die Behorden widerspruchliche Angaben. Prasident Dmitri Medwedew versprach eine Untersuchung des Falls und entlie? 20 Gefangnisbeamte. “Aber bisher wurde niemand im Zusammenhang mit Magnitskis Tod angeklagt”, sagte Browder. Kusnetsow und Karpow seien gar befordert worden. Russische Menschenrechtler appellierten an die USA und an die EU, ein Einreiseverbot gegen die Verantwortlichen zu beschlie?en. Polen hat bereits Unterstutzung signalisiert. Claudia von Salzen
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