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The 9 Bedford Row International Annual Conference is on Saturday 1st October 2011 in London.
It reviews some of the cases and situations the 9BRi international criminal law team have dealt with in the last year at the ICC, ICTY, STL, Bangladesh Courts.
Steven Kay QC and Gillian Higgins of the ICLB will be speaking along with other members of 9BRi, Toby Cadman and John Cammegh.
The guest speaker is William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital with whom 9BRi are collaborating to achieve justice in relation to the death of the Russian lawyer for Hermitage, Sergei Magnitsky, who was murdered in pre-trial detention in 2009 after having been falsely imprisoned by Russian Police Officers who had stolen the identity of Hermitage to benefit from a huge tax fraud. The conspiracy also involves Russian tax officials, the judiciary, prison officials and senior political figures.
The conference will provide an insight into the case management of international criminal cases and the diversity of opportunities in this fascinating area of the law.
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Medvedev: Criminal acts killed Russian lawyer Magnitsky
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the death in police custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was likely the result of criminal actions.
A Russian government rights body reported to Mr Medvedev that police, prison officials and doctors all shared blame for Mr Magnitsky’s death.
Mr Magnitsky died in 2009, accused of fraud after himself accusing Russian officials of a huge tax fraud scheme. No-one has been charged over his death or the tax fraud he alleged.
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Police ‘illegally arrested’ lawyer who died in prison
The Times
A group of Russian detectives illegally arrested a lawyer who died in prison after accusing them of a $230 million (£143 million) tax fraud, an inquiry ordered by President Medvedev concluded yesterday.
In an apparent breakthrough in the scandal over the alleged torture and killing of Sergei Magnitsky, the President’s human rights council pointed the finger for the first time at police whom he had accused of corruption.
Mr Magnitsky, 37, died in agony in Matrosskaya Tishina prison, Moscow, in November 2009 after being held for a year in pre-trial detention and being denied medical treatment for serious illnesses. He repeatedly complained that he was tortured in jail to try to force him to withdraw testimony against a group of Interior Ministry police whom he had accused of stealing $230 million.
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A death in a Russian prison; Rights panel calls for inquiry on treatment of jailed lawyer
He was chained to a cot, a lone prisoner in a small cell facing eight guards who beat him while a summoned ambulance crew was kept waiting outside. When the doctors were finally admitted to the prison, they found Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky dead, his body bruised, most of his knuckles smashed, one of his arms dark blue from a grip of the handcuffs lying nearby.
The attorney’s death in Moscow’s infamous Sailor’s Silence prison was described Tuesday in a report delivered to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by his advisory human rights council. The panel called for an investigation of possible corruption on the part of officials involved in the nearly yearlong imprisonment of Magnitsky on tax evasion charges.
Medvedev, who had ordered the official investigation shortly after the Nov. 16, 2009, death of Magnitsky, met with members of the council in the southern city of Nalchik.
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Lawyer beaten in Moscow jail just hours before he died
An investigation into the death of Sergei Magnitsky in custody has suggested that the 37-year-old lawyer was beaten by eight prison guards with truncheons shortly before he died.
Mr Magnitsky claimed to have uncovered a huge tax fraud involving officials at the Russian Interior Ministry but he was then accused of being involved in the fraud himself. He was arrested in November 2008, and died in a Moscow prison in November 2009.
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Former ambassador to Russia demands UK act on Magnitsky death
Britain’s former Ambassador to Russia has attacked the Government for failing to crack down on a group of Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of the anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and implicated in a $230m (£140m) alleged fraud.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph today, Sir Tony Brenton, Ambassador to Russia from 2004 to 2008, urges the UK authorities to make “publicly clear their abhorrence at what has happened” and to ban those concerned from entry into the UK.
His comments follow a unanimous vote in the Dutch Parliament for the 60 Russian officials identified by UK-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management and law firm Jamison Firestone, for which Mr Magnitsky worked, to be barred entry into the country.
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Russia blames doctors, not police, in death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
Russian authorities, under persistent international pressure to charge police officials in the pretrial detention death of a 37-year-old lawyer, on Monday blamed prison doctors instead.
Human rights activists, colleagues of Sergei Magnitsky and even U.S. senators have urged Russia to call Interior Ministry officials to account for arresting, prosecuting and then denying medical treatment to Magnitsky, who died in custody in November 2009.
But on Monday, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, told the Interfax news agency that doctors would be prosecuted because of “flaws” in treatment that caused Magnitsky’s death.
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Poor Care Led to Death of Lawyer, Russia Says
Russia’s Investigative Committee on Monday acknowledged for the first time that 37-year-old Sergei L. Magnitsky died in pretrial detention because prison authorities denied him medical care, setting the stage for prosecution in a case that has come to epitomize Russia’s trouble establishing rule of law.
Mr. Magnitsky was drawn into a feud between his employer, an international investment company, and Russian law enforcement authorities, testifying that senior Interior Ministry officers had used his employer’s companies to embezzle $230 million from the Russian treasury. He was arrested and held without bail on charges of evading about $17.4 million in taxes. He died in 2009 after 11 months in custody.
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Russia blames medics for Hermitage lawyer death
Reuters
Russian investigators, probing an affair that has shaken the confidence of foreign investors, said on Monday that poor medical care was to blame for the death in jail of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer for Hermitage Capital, once Russia’s biggest equity fund, died of heart failure in November 2009 after around a year in prison, sparking worldwide outrage.
He had earlier testified against Russian interior ministry officials during a tax evasion case against Hermitage. The hedge fund had accused the officials of embezzling $230 million in tax refunds from the state budget.
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