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Prosecutors drop charges in Magnitsky killing to leave family at square one
Supporters of Russian anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky have seen their hopes of justice fade after it emerged that prosecutors have withdrawn charges against the only person to be tried in connection with his death.
An investigation into the death of Mr Magnitsky in Moscow’s Butyrka prison in 2009 saw charges brought against two people, both doctors: Larisa Litvinova, who was responsible for the lawyer’s treatment during the last weeks of his life, and Dmitri Kratov, who at the time was the chief medical official at the prison.
Charges of professional negligence against Dr Litvinova were dropped earlier this year after prosecutors claimed the statute of limitations had run out, and on Monday the state prosecutor, Konstantin Bokov, urged the court to acquit Dr Kratov. “There is no cause-and-effect relationship between Kratov’s actions and Magnitsky’s death,” Mr Bokov is reported to have said. “I request his acquittal.” The court is expected to make its ruling on Friday.
Mr Magnitsky died in November 2009 after nearly a year in jail – the victim, former colleagues say, of retribution from the same police investigators he had accused of stealing $230m from the state through fraudulent tax refunds. The 37-year-old’s death was attributed by the prison to a heart attack, but Mr Magnitsky’s supporters insist he was fatally beaten after exposing what he described as a web of corruption.
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State Prosecutor Requests Acquittal of Sole Defendant in Magnitsky Death
A state prosecutor on Monday asked a Moscow court to acquit a former senior prison official and the only remaining defendant in Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death of negligence charges that resulted in the lawyer’s death in pretrial detention in 2009.
If the plea is satisfied, no one will be prosecuted in Magnitsky’s death, since the charges against the first of the two suspects were dropped in April.
State prosecutor Dmitry Bokov asked Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court to acquit Dmitry Kratov, former deputy head of Moscow’s Butyrka pretrial detention center, over a lack of evidence, legal news agency Rapsi reported.
In late 2008, shortly after accusing tax and police officials of embezzling $230 million, Magnitsky was jailed on tax evasion charges. He died of heart failure at the Matrosskaya Tishina prison a few months after being transferred from Butyrka.
An independent inquiry by the Kremlin’s Human Rights Council determined that Magnitsky died after being beaten by guards.
In an e-mail in June, Hermitage Capital called the investigation a “farce” because Kratov was “not present at Matrosskaya Tishina.”
Although it was determined that Kratov “failed to take the necessary diagnostic and treatment measures, which resulted in Magnitsky’s death through carelessness,” the prison official hadn’t received any written complaints from Magnitsky or other people about the lawyer’s health, Bokov said.
The prosecutor also reminded the court that in April investigators closed a criminal case against prison doctor Larisa Litvinova on manslaughter charges related to Magnistky’s death because the statute of limitations had run out, not because Litvinova had been acquitted of the charges.
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Prosecutor requests to acquit defendant in Magnitsky case
The prosecutor has asked a Moscow district court to acquit Dmitry Kratov, former deputy head of the Butyrka pretrial detention center, accused of negligence which resulted in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the court spokesperson told the Russian Legal Information Agency.
Kratov has been charged with negligence in regards to the death of Sergei Magnitsky. Prosecutor requested to acquit Kratov as no link was established between the actions of the defendant and Magnitsky’s death.
“Pursuant to the experts’ conclusion, Magnitsky died from the heart failure,” the prosecutor said, stressing that Kratov was acting duly.
Magnitsky, who served as a managing partner of the Firestone Duncan auditing firm and a legal consultant of the Hermitage Capital Management investment fund, was detained on November 24, 2008.
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Russia seeks to drop charges over Magnitsky death
Russian prosecutors said on Monday the man on trial for causing the death of a whistle-blowing attorney should be freed without charge, in a surprising development in a case that has triggered a major row between Moscow and Washington.
Dmitry Kratov is the only official remaining as a defendant in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died of untreated illnesses in 2009 while under pre-trial arrest at a Moscow jail.
Magnitsky had claimed to have uncovered a $235 million state embezzlement scheme, before being arrested by the very officials he implicated in the crime.
His case caused international outrage and led to the passage of a US law that blacklists Russian officials allegedly involved in the death.
Moscow retaliated by introducing legislation banning adoptions of Russian children to American citizens in the biggest diplomatic scandal in years between the two powers.
In Monday’s development, prosecutor Dmitry Bokov said that Kratov, deputy head of the prison where Magnitsky died, should be acquitted of a charge of carelessness, because he acted according to the rules and did not receive any complaints from the lawyer.
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