Complaints

Complaint on the unwillingness to investigate the theft of the Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and large-scale fraud, filed with the General Prosecutor’s Office (Chaika) (21 July 2008)
Complaint filed by the Hermitage Fund with the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office regarding the absence of any criminal investigation into the theft of the Hermitage Fund companies and the subsequent fraud. The complaint mentions that all applications and complaints of Hermitage and HSBC were ultimately transferred to the very same Interior Ministry officers who had been implicated in the crime.
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Complaint by Hermitage Capital to the General Prosecutor’s Office on the illegal persecution of their lawyers who reported the Interior Ministry officers’ complicity in the $230 million theft (10 November 2008)
Complaint filed by Hermitage Capital with the Russian General Prosecutor in connection with the persecution of its lawyers, which stated that the investigation of the crimes against Hermitage and the Russian budget was assigned to the same Interior Ministry officers whom were implicated in these crimes (officers Kuznetsov and Karpov). The complaint further sets forth how these Interior Ministry officers organized the persecution of Hermitage’s lawyers and a sham investigation of the fraud aimed at covering up the involvement of the Interior Ministry officers. Two weeks after this complaint was filed, Sergei Magnitsky, the Hermitage Fund’s lawyer, was arrested in Moscow by Lt Col Kuznetsov’s subordinates.
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Complaint to the General Prosecutor’s Office on the illegal persecution of their lawyers who reported the Interior Ministry officers’ complicity in the $230 million theft (27 October 2008)
Complaint filed by the Hermitage Fund’s trustee, HSBC, with the Russian General Prosecutor, Yuri Chaika, about the unlawful persecution of lawyers working for the Hermitage Fund. who had reported illegal actions of police officers involved in the misappropriation of Hermitage Fund companies and $230 million of budget funds. The complaint described how to cover up officers’ involvement in the thefts, illegal criminal proceedings were initiated in Kazan by investigator Urzhumtsev and later moved under the complicit officers’ control in Moscow, and how under those proceedings, all Hermitage Fund’s lawyers were targeted with unlawful searches and summonses to intimidate them for reporting the offences by Interior Ministry officers.
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