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Colonel Natalya Vinogradova
Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of the Interior Ministry colonel Natalya Vinogradova, who participated in the investigation of investment fund Hermitage Capital of lawyer Magnitsky may be involved in receiving a bribe of 40 thousand dollars for the renewal of terminating the criminal case, said Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov, in his statement sent to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.
In 2008, the bribe, divided into tranches, Vinogradova, who had the name of Shcherbakova and then worked in a methodical control of the Interior Ministry met with the member of the “Guild of Lawyers of Moscow,” Vladimir Podolyakin. In 2003, the lawyer involved in client assets under the Moscow factory “Stekloagregat.” The case of forgery in the privatization was investigating at the police department of the Southern District, and to achieve the seizure of the plant, Podolyakina requsted Vinogradova to help him. After giving her a total of 40 thousand dollars, the case was sent to the main investigation department of the Moscow police, but the property has not been arrested. Then Vladimir Podolyakin asked Natalya Vinogradova to back money. After refusing, he went to the police. According to Kirill Kabanov, this is not the only accusation against N.Vinogradova.
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Jail Officials Targeted Over Magnitsky
Investigators said Monday that a criminal case has been opened into two prison officials in connection with the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and that they face possible charges of negligence.
Larisa Litvinova, former medical official at Moscow’s Butyrskaya pretrial prison, faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted of unintentional manslaughter by breach of professional duty, the Investigative Committee said.
Her former superior, Dmitry Kratov, may be jailed for five years if charged with negligence that resulted in death, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said, Interfax reported.
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FSB, police officials could figure in Magnitsky death investigation
Officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Interior Ministry may be implicated in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in police custody, a member of the Kremlin’s human rights council said on Thursday..
Magnitsky died after almost a year in a notorious Moscow pre-trial detention center in November 2009. He had been arrested on tax evasion charges just days after claiming that police investigators had stolen $230 million from the state.
On Wednesday a council report said his death was likely to have been the result of a beating and that the charges against him were fraudulent. Human rights activists and his former colleagues allege the officers he had accused were involved in his death, which was originally said to have been the result of “heart failure.”
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Inside Russia, new light shines on Magnitsky case
Investigators, prison doctors, prosecutors and judges are responsible for the death of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer, the presidential council on human rights stated. The international community watches to see what happens next.
The Russian lawyer who once worked for a U.S. investment fund died after a brutal beating from prison guards, the presidential council on human rights confirmed last week. Investigators, prison doctors, prosecutors and judges are all responsible for the death of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer, the Presidential Council on Human Rights also found.
Their findings have international implications, as the case is seen as another litmus test for how the Kremlin can handle cases of alleged official corruption and abuses of power. In death, Magnitsky has become an international cause celebre: The 37-year-old lawyer died alone in prison in November 2009. He had accused officials of tax fraud before his arrest.
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Report Blames Prison Officials In Magnitsky Death, Russian President Cites ‘Criminal Actions’
Nearly two years after Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called his treatment “criminal” in the wake of a damning report blaming prison officials for the hedge fund lawyer’s death.
A report issued yesterday by Medvedev’s investigative council concluded that Magnitsky, who represented Hermitage Capital Management, “was completely deprived of medical care. Additionally, there are grounds to suspect that Magnitsky’s death was the result of a beating,” and not merely the pancreatitis he contracted during the year he spent behind bars on suspicion of tax evasion.
One member of the investigative committee went even further, telling The Telegraph, “we have concluded he died of a beating. It was real torture to beat an ailing man with truncheons.”
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Impudence and Impunity
Russia Profile.org
As Russia prepares for this year’s Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, the long-running saga of the Hermitage Capital Management will loom large in the minds of potential investors and could cast a shadow of uncertainty over Russia’s shaky investment climate. Last week, one of the individuals accused by the British hedge-fund firm of involvement in a $230 million tax scam, finally broke what looked like a sacred vow of silence.
In an interview with the Vedomosti business daily published on Friday, Vladlen Stepanov, the husband of a Russian tax official who allegedly embezzled millions through the tax rebate scam, denied any connection between his wealth and the fraud. He announced that he had filed a lawsuit to protect his honor, dignity and business reputation against the Echo of Moscow radio station, which aired the allegations, and against Jamison Firestone, a managing partner at Firestone Duncan who voiced them.
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Five Years For $230 Million Tax Fraud
Vyacheslav Khlebnikov, one of the perpetrators of the $230 million tax fraud exposed by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has escaped from any significant sentencing for his role in the crime despite the gravity of the crime and in spite of Khlebnikov’s previous criminal convictions. Instead, he has been given a light sentence by Igor Alisov, Chief Judge of the Tverskoi District Court of Moscow.
According to the court, Khlebnikov was sentenced to 5 years in a colony but faced no financial fines and was not required to return the $230 million in stolen funds or identify where the money had gone. The hearing and sentencing took place in a trial which did not have witnesses and which did not require any evidence, instead relying solely on Khlebnikov’s own testimony. The public was not informed of the sentencing despite formal appeals filed with the Russian General Prosecutors Office by Magnitsky’s colleagues, who insisted on a public and transparent hearing.
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Bill Browder: The Russians are out to kill me…
Evening Standard
London, A year ago last week, millionaire hedge fund boss Bill Browder received a chilling call at his north-west London home that would change his life for ever. The call was from Russia and it was to say that Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who had been held on trumped-up charges and tortured in a Moscow prison, was dead.
“It was the worst moment of my life,” recalls Browder. “I walked round my bedroom in a daze, full of dread. I’m the head of a $1 billion hedge fund, I always know what to do, but for the first time in my life I felt lost. Sergei was 37. He had a wife and two sons and everything to live for. Yet he had been tortured and died —all because of his refusal to falsely testify against me.
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Magnitsky and Russia’s Opportunity Cost
16 November 2010 – November 16th marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was imprisoned last year in Moscow under pre-trial detention and intentionally denied medical care which led to his death. The responsibility lies with the Russian government, and specifically with individual officials who sought to cover up a $230 million tax fraud they had orchestrated using stolen documentation from Magnitsky’s client, Hermitage Capital Management.
No one has ever been held accountable for Magnitsky’s death: no charges, no arrests, no trials, and no justice, despite the mountains of evidence and even the names of the “untouchables” made public. Instead, with a familiar Russian twist, the killers were rewarded with promotions and decorations, while the victim has been blamed for the crime. Those who make a fuss over the Magnitsky incident are investigated, persecuted, and sometimes chased into exile.
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