Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Sergei Magnitsky Death Highlights Russia Impunity

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After speaking out against corruption, the young lawyer was left to die in jail. Two years on, says Jamison Firestone, no one has been brought to justice

In 2008 a young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, working for Russia’s largest foreign investor, Hermitage Fund, began investigating links between senior Russian officials and organised crime figures.

As Magnitsky dug deeper, he found instance after instance of fraudulent tax refunds, totalling about half a billion dollars. He filed a series of complaints and repeatedly gave testimony against the officials and criminals involved.