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Court Dismisses Case of Doctor Accused in Trifonova’s Death
A Moscow court has stopped a criminal case against Dr. Alexandra Artamonova, who treated businesswoman Vera Trifonova who died in a pretrial detention facility, because the statute of limitation had expired, RAPSI news agency reported on Friday.
This decision is not an admission of guilt and is not considered a criminal record.
The deaths in pretrial detention of two defendants in white-collar crime cases, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and businesswoman Vera Trifonova, sparked a public outcry. Vera Trifonova, 54, a wheelchair-bound businesswoman, was accused of fraud. She died at Matrosskaya Tishina in April 2010 after being refused medical treatment for acute diabetes and told to sleep “standing up.”
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Legal merry-go-round over prison death
Russia’s investigative committee has brought charges against a doctor whose alleged negligence caused a high-profile death in prison.
Fifty-three-year-old Vera Trifonova, head of a real estate agency, was arrested on fraud charges in December 2010. Despite having serious health problems, she was put into a pre-trial detention center. In April 2010 she died in custody.
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