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CAMERON WARNED OVER RUSSIA LINKS
PRIME Minister David Cameron is being warned to exercise caution when urging British companies to invest in Russia.
The warning from top financier Bill Browder comes as Cameron prepares to visit Russia today on a trade visit. He will also be meeting Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Browder, whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and murdered in a Russian jail, said: “If he promotes investment in Russia he is putting British money and lives in harm’s way.
“He needs to create consequences for Russian officials who have victimised British investors before luring new investors into Russia.”
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David Cameron urged to get tough with Russia over Sergei Magnitsky’s death
PM should use Kremlin visit to raise the case of whistleblower lawyer’s death, say politicians from US and UK.
Former US presidential candidate John McCain is among a number of senior American politicians urging David Cameron to bar from Britain dozens of Russian officials implicated in the controversial death of a whistleblower.
The prime minister arrives in Moscow on Monday, his first visit to the Kremlin, amid mounting international pressure to follow the lead of the US by introducing visa bans for individuals linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The 37-year-old was working for a British company when he exposed the biggest tax fraud in Russian history. After accusing Interior Ministry officials, Magnitsky was arrested and died in police custody after being denied essential medical care. Investigators say the father of two was tortured and badly beaten in the hours before his death in November 2009.
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‘The British government must confront Russia over human rights abuses’
An influential British businessmen has accused David Cameron of going soft on Russia and of naively treating the Kremlin with kid gloves out of a misplaced fear of Moscow.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on the eve of the Prime Minister’s historic visit to Russia tomorrow, William Browder, the founder of UK-based Hermitage Capital Management, said the British government had shied away from tackling Russia on human rights issues and claimed that the Kremlin was laughing at Mr Cameron behind his back.
“The government needs to be realistic about dealing with Russia. But it doesn’t seem to understand its major strength in dealing with Russian officials,” Mr Browder charged.
“If they think that making nice with the Russians will solve any problems, it won’t. The Russians just laugh at anyone who is approaching them from a position of weakness.”
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Jamison Firestone, “We reject the option, where we do not demand that the people who killed Magnitsky go to prison”
(Translated from Original Russian)
Hermitage Capital’s lawyers demand a criminal case against the former head of the Moscow Tax Inspectorate № 28 of Olga Stepanova. Jamison Firestone (Firestone Dunken), colleague Magnitsky, answered questions from RFI.
RFI: Jamison, good morning. Attorneys «Hermitage Capital» call to investigate a new crime of tax official’s Olga Stepanova. Sergei Magnitsky has helped uncover a crime, was arrested and died. Are not you afraid that history may repeat itself?
Jamison Firestone: Of course, we’re afraid of this. But there is a problem: there is a group of people who systematically stole huge amounts of money – nearly $ 400 million – from the budget, and to hide it, they killed a man. And we just categorically reject the option where we do not require that the people who killed Sergei go to prison. So, of course, it is frightening work; But on the other hand, people killed a man, a man whom Russia should recognize as a hero, and these people should be held responsible for his murder. And in order for them to answer for this, we continue to work.
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Sergei Magnitsky, the death that shakes the Kremlin
(Translation from Original French text)
While Russian police recently raided the headquarters of BP in Moscow that Putin seems to have decided to become president of the country, here is the article I published last week in the “Nouvel Observateur” on d ‘a case that caused a stir in Russia.
It was a Muscovite like millions of others. Yet his death – heroic – will perhaps change the course of relations between Russia and the world. Sergei Magnitsky was a modest jurist who, unfortunately for him, discovered the huge embezzlement organized by a group of leading Russian officials. To silence him, he was thrown into prison, where for a year, he was tortured and denied care. He did not give. Despite excruciating pain, he refused to withdraw his testimony against the top brass. And November 16, 2009, it was left to die alone in a filthy cell.
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Moscow Martyr
When David Cameron arrives in Moscow this month for the first visit by a British prime minister since the Litvinenko murder five years ago, both sides will be keen to downplay the issue of human rights. In his talks with President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin, there will doubtless be echoes of Margaret Thatcher’s remark when she first met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984: “We can do business together.”
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Great Britain might introduce sanctions against the Russians on the Magnitsky List
WPS: What the Papers Say
MacShane said, “Magnitsky’s death was gruesome but nobody has ever been brought to answer for it even though identities of these people are known. Hermitage Capital is a British company. Its head William Browder is a citizen of Great Britain. The authorities of Great Britain cannot remain a disinterested observer.”
“Since Moscow is clearly unwilling to prosecute the people whose decisions and actions resulted in the death of an innocent, it becomes our duty. Putin and Medvedev ought to be reminded that the days of Josef Stalin are over and impunity with them. The United States has made its contribution. It’s our turn now.”
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This Hedge Fund Manager Is Up 5% And He’s Been Fighting Corrupt Russians
Hemitage Capital’s chief executive, hedge fund manager Bill Browder, is up 5% YTD and he’s doing it while fighting corrupt Russians.
Browder’s $1 billion hedge fund made most of its money investing in Russian companies — until he had a falling out with authorities. Now Browder is not allowed in the country.
He was banned from entering Russia, “blacklisted” and named a “threat to national security,” after accusing Russian tax officials of corruption and embezzlement in 2006, according to a report in The Economist.
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Justice sought over Russian lawyer’s death; Browder urges UK ban on culprits
Express on Sunday
Financier Bill Browder is determined to see justice done for his murdered Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. A year and a half after Magnitsky’s torture and death in a Russian jail, Browder’s ceaseless campaigning has prompted Washington to ban up to 60 Russian officials implicated in the crime from entering the US.
Now Browder, an American-born British citizen, wants the UK to implement a similar visa ban on the officials. He said yesterday: “It’s time for my country to do the same thing.”
Next month, he will ramp up the pressure on the Government to take action ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Russia.
But his mission will not stop there: he wants to stop similar tragedies happening again in Russia. “Sergei’s death is a chance to change Russia in some fundamental way,” he said.
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