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Berlin Exhibit Explores Magnitsky Case
A permanent exhibition at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Friedrichstrasse 43-45; mauermuseum.de) in Berlin exposes a modern-day saga of governmental corruption, coercion and torture. The Sergei Magnitsky case revealed egregious abuses of power that continue to plague Putin’s Russia and which ultimately led to the tragic demise of the 37-year-old tax attorney Magnitsky, while he was held captive in a maximum security Russian prison.
His crime? Uncovering a vast conspiracy that sought to rob the Russian state and its citizens of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds, allegedly executed by police officers and governmental officials.
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Russian lawyer beaten on day of jail death: supporters
A Western investment fund whose attorney died in a Moscow jail published documents Monday alleging to show prison officials authorised the use of rubber batons on the day of his death.
The case of Sergei Magnitsky — a whistle-blowing lawyer who alleged mass embezzlement by the tax police — has been highlighted by the West as one of the most flagrant abuses of human rights in Russia in recent years.
The 37-year-old’s death also raised alarm over the Russian justice system’s impartiality and the ability of the police to manipulate the courts.
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Investigation against Russian lawyer who died in jail extended despite his family’s pleas
Russian investigators on Thursday declined to close a probe against a Russian lawyer who died in jail of an untreated illness, extending the investigation by another two months despite his family’s pleas to end it.
Sergei Magnitsky died of an untreated pancreatitis in November 2009 after spending almost a year in a Moscow jail on tax evasion charges. Investors working in Russia have said the lawyer’s death and allegations of torture highlight corruption in the judicial system and presents a litmus test for President Dmitry Medvedev’s pledge to cement the rule of law in the country.
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Investigation into Magnitsky’s case extended
The investigation into the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital fund who died two years ago in a Moscow pretrial detention ward, has been extended, the Interior Ministry’s investigative department told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Magnitsky died of cardiovascular insufficiency on November 16, 2009. His death sparked a major public outcry, and resulted in amendments to criminal procedure and a large reshuffling of officials in the penal system.
The criminal case against him was terminated due to his death, but was later resumed by the Prosecutor General’s Office. Magnitsky’s relatives have demanded that the case against him be dropped.
“Investigation into Magnitsky’s case has been extended for the investigators to find out the relatives’ attitude towards terminating prosecution against the deceased,” the department reported.
According to investigators, Magnitsky and his accomplices stole 5.4 billion rubles ($172 million) from the state by manipulating tax returns between September and October 2007.
In turn, Hermitage Capital has maintained that the investment fund had paid the 5.4 billion rubles in taxes, but that the money was stolen by corporate raiders with the help of law enforcement officials. Magnitsky’s prosecution is attributed to this theft.
Later two of the six individuals, who were under investigation, were sentenced to imprisonment. The others, including Magnistky, died. займ онлайн unshaven girl zp-pdl.com zp-pdl.com unshaven girl
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Sergei Magnitsky’s mother vows to continue fight for justice in Russia
Two years after the Russian whistleblower died in custody, Natalia Magnitskaya says many people were behind his death.
Natalia Magnitskaya speaks in whispers, her tired eyes looking down at fingers that twist and turn from anxiety. She barely slept last night, as with most nights in the two years since her son died within the walls of one of Russia’s most notorious prisons.
Sergei Magnitsky was 37 when he died in November 2009 of multiple ailments he developed after being arrested a year earlier. The charges against him, of fraud and tax evasion, were designed to pressure the young lawyer into backing off on an investigation into an alleged attempt by corrupt state officials to steal $230m (£143m) in fake tax refunds, his supporters say.
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A Quick Way to Become a Superpower
In a meeting with Volga Federal District media professionals on Saturday, President Dmitry Medvedev essentially buried his earlier proposal for government officials to declare their large expenditures.
Russia, along with 139 other countries, is a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The only problem is that when the State Duma ratified this convention, it insisted on excluding one of its most important articles: Article 20, which states that illicit enrichment — a significant increase in the assets of public officials that they cannot justify in relation to their declared income — is a criminal offense.
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Russia transfers gravely ill inmate to hospital after Strasbourg ruling
A gravely ill inmate, Natalia Gulevich, whose kidneys and bladder recently failed was transferred on Tuesday from a pretrial detention center to a hospital after the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights issued a ruling, her lawyer, Anna Stavitskaya, said.
“Gulevich was today transferred to a hospital! The EU’s persistence [Strasbourg court ruling] and a kidney failure was necessary for this! Without it our officials believed that the individual was healthy,” Stavitskaya said on her Facebook page.
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Late lawyer’s mother wants Russia to drop probe
The mother of Sergei Magnitsky, a tax lawyer whose death in detention has become a symbol of broken justice in Russia, says authorities are stonewalling her efforts to stop a posthumous investigation of her son for tax evasion.
The death in 2009 of Magnitsky, a lawyer for British hedge fund Hermitage Capital, spooked foreign investors. Washington has barred entry to dozens of Russian officials it said shared in the guilt for jailing him before his trial in conditions which rights activists said were tantamount to torture.
Two years after his death, Russian prosecutors have reopened a criminal tax fraud case against Natalya Magnitskaya’s son in what she called a violation of her legal rights.
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U.S. Prods Russia Over Magnitsky’s Death
The U.S. government marked the second anniversary of the prison death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on Wednesday by urging the Russian government to hold accountable those officials involved in his death.
“Despite widely publicized credible evidence of criminal conduct in Magnitsky’s case, Russian authorities have failed to bring to justice those responsible,” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in an e-mailed statement.
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