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Magnitsky’s colleague writes open letter to presidential candidates
Jamison Firestone, a colleague of late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died at a Moscow jail, has called on the Russian presidential candidates to take charge of the Magnitsky inquest.
Today Sergei Magnitsky’s colleague has sent an open letter to all the Russian presidential candidates, urging them to put an end to the mocking of Sergei Magnitsky’s relatives by Russian law enforcement agencies, the company said in a statement obtained by Interfax on Thursday.
Despite the unprecedented public outrage both in and outside Russia, law enforcement agencies have not advanced in their investigation of these crimes, having blamed only ordinary doctors, or petty criminals and drug addicts, or Magnitsky himself, according to the letter sent to Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Prokhorov, Sergei Mironov, Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
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Lawyers for Magnitsky family to protest investigator actions
The lawyers for the relatives of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a detention facility, will not become familiar with the tax evasion case against him.
“We will not read the case materials because the investigation was conducted and the case was resumed with violations of the law,” Nikolai Gorokhov, a lawyer for Magnitsky’s mother, told Interfax.
Gorokhov said the investigator’s decision to stop working on the tax case against Magnitsky will be contested. “We will file another complaint against the investigator’s actions,” the lawyer said.
The lawyer did not make any predictions about the investigator’s actions and their ability to bring the Magnitsky case to court. “I cannot predict their actions because they are doing everything illegally,” he said.
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Lawyers accuse Magnitsky investigator of exceeding powers – Hermitage
The Moscow Bar Association has rejected a request by a Russian investigator, who asked for a defense attorney to be appointed for the family of late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky against their will, the company said.
“Article 51 of the Russian Penal Code does not stipulate the provision of legal aid in appointing an attorney for the accused. The Bar Association does not provide any particular lawyer by the appointment of preliminary investigation officers,” head of the bar association Alla Zhivina said in a letter to Moscow Central District’s investigator Boris Kibis.
An extract from the document was contained in a Hermitage press release obtained by Interfax on Friday.
“The bar’s letter to investigator Kibis also points out that he exceeded his powers by naming a specific lawyer he would like to ‘appoint’ for the Magnitsky relatives against their will,” the investment fund said.
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Magnitsky’s family skeptical about new forensic study into his death
The defense team of the family of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the investment foundation Hermitage Capital, who died in detention in 2009, is skeptical about an expert examination ordered by the investigation to find out whether Magnitsky had been subjected to torture.
“Three forensic medical examinations have already been carried out. However strange as it may seem, none of them concluded that he had really been subjected to violence, although they found obvious things, like marks on his hands, for instance,” Yelena Oreshnikova, a lawyer for Magnitsky’s widow, told Interfax on Tuesday.
It is strange that such an examination has been ordered so long after Magnitsky’s death, she said.
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Russia: Hermitage Capital says more pressure exerted on Magnitskiy family
Interfax
A new investigator just assigned to the case of the former Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy has summoned his mother to appear for questioning, Interfax news agency reported on 28 December, quoting a Hermitage Capital statement.
“Magnitskiy’s mother has received a telegram from Boris Kibis, an investigator of the Interior Ministry’s main directorate for Central Federal District, who has formally replaced Oleg Silchenko [as the Magnitskiy case investigator]. Investigator Kibis has requested her to come to his office today, 28 December, at 1500 [1100 gmt]. As an alternative, investigator Kibis has offered Magnitskiy’s mother to waive her right to seek rehabilitation of her son,” the statement says. Investigator Kibis, the fund adds, earlier refused to consider as “insignificant” the conclusions made by the presidential council on human rights acknowledging Magnitskiy’s arrest as illegal and recognizing violations of his rights by biased investigators. Moreover, Hermitage Capital’s statement says, the new investigator did not find any wrongdoing in the actions of his predecessor, who continues to oversee the Magnitskiy case.
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Rights campaigners question Interior Ministry’s version of Magnitsky’s death
Human rights campaigners distrust the Interior Ministry’s version of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death as well as the ministry’s claims that he was arrested because he could flee abroad.
“The facts we possess support our version that he died as a result of being beaten. He was actually killed. Let them prove the opposite,” head of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission and Moscow Helsinki Group member Valery Borshchyov told Interfax on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, chief of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Department Pavel Lapshov denied any “cause-and-effect link between alleged beatings or any hardships or deprivations he [Magnitsky] had allegedly been put through”.
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Activists vow to ensure full inquiry into Magnitsky death
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Russian prosecutor’s libel claim against dead lawyer’s colleague rejected
Interfax
The Meshchanskiy district court of Moscow has turned down the claim by an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office, Andrey Pechegin. He asked for a decision to order Jamison Firestone – a colleague of a lawyer of Hermitage Capital investment fund, Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in remand prison – to retract assertions, according to which the claimant with his actions paralysed the investigation of the case of the theft of R5.4bn from the budget of the Russian Federation.
According to an Interfax correspondent, the court read out only the declarative part of the ruling and therefore the reasons it was guided by will become known later.
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Russian rights activist criticizes scope of Magnitskiy investigation
Two years on from the death of the Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, human rights activists say that there has been no full investigation of the tragedy.
“Something was done: criminal proceedings were instituted over Magnitskiy’s death. Some people face charges as part of these proceedings; they are the doctors, and that is where the problem lies,” Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anticorruption Committee and a member of the presidential council for human rights [Council for Promoting the Development of the Institutions of Civil Society and Human Rights], told Interfax on Tuesday [15 November].
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