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Former Prosecutor Details Violations in Magnitsky Case

Moscow Times

A former senior federal prosecutor has accused her one-time colleagues of illegally intervening in the probe into the 2009 death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, as well as committing legal violations in connection with other high-profile cases.

Galina Tarasova, who says she was fired from the Prosecutor General’s Office in April, said Sergei Bochkaryov, a department head at the agency, phoned Investigative Committee officials “giving them oral orders” and “sending some kind of documents” in connection with the committee’s probe into Magnitsky’s death.

Two other senior officials at the Prosecutor General’s Office — David Kutaliya and Timur Borisov — “obstructed oversight of the probe into Magnitsky’s death” by “creating red tape,” Tarasova said in an interview published on pro-nationalist news website Russkaya Planeta on Wednesday.

The Prosecutor General’s Office is charged with overseeing the work of the Investigative Committee to ensure that investigators do not violate the law while carrying out criminal probes, Tarasova explained. Prosecutors also approve charges before sending a case to court.

Tarasova linked her dismissal to her complaints to superiors about the legal violations committed by her colleagues.