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Hermitage Sues Russia Interior Ministry
Hermitage Capital Management has sued Russia’s Interior Ministry, accusing it of abuse of power.
According to the hedge fund, once one of the largest foreign investors in Russia, the ministry had no basis for launching a tax investigation of Hermitage in 2007. Hermitage claims that Interior Ministry officials used the pretense of that investigation to raid the hedge fund’s offices and seize documents that they later used to defraud the Russian government of US$230 million in taxes paid by Hermitage.
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Hermitage Capital Sues Russian Ministry Over Tax Investigation
Hermitage Capital Management, the $1.2 billion hedge fund run by William Browder, sued Russia’s Interior Ministry, accusing it of opening an improper tax investigation that defrauded the government out of $230 million.
Hermitage filed a lawsuit at Russia’s Constitutional Court last month that says the ministry had no justification for opening a 2007 tax probe into a company the hedge fund advised on investments in the country. The probe allowed the ministry to obtain Hermitage documents that were used to steal taxes the London-based hedge fund had paid to the Russian government, Hermitage said in a statement released today.
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