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Lawyers for Magnitsky family accuse investigators of illegal actions – Hermitage Capital
The lawyers for the relatives of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, who died in a Moscow detention facility in 2009, have complained to the administration of three law enforcement agencies about an investigator who provided materials relating to the Magnitsky criminal case to his colleagues in the Interior Ministry, the press service for the investment company said.
“The lawyer for Magnitsky’s mother has filed a statement stating a conflict of interest in the investigation into the lawyer’s and the creation by the administration of the investigative body of a situation threatening the safety of the victims and the witnesses in the case,” the press service said in a report obtained by Interfax on Monday.
The statement has been sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigations Committee, and the Investigations Department of the Interior Ministry.
“The statement says that the Investigations Committee has provided unlimited access to the materials of the case involving Magnitsky’s death to the Interior Ministry officials whom the victim stated as accomplices in his torture and killing, thus violating the victim’s rights,” the press release.
The lawyers said such actions create “conditions for a threat to the life and safety of the victims and other persons who have provided investigators with evidence on the role in the crime against Magnitsky of Interior Ministry officials who are interested in hiding this information and evading responsibility.”
Magnitsky, who was accused of tax evasion, died at the Moscow detention facility Matrosskaya Tishina on November 16, 2009. Acute cardiac arrest was officially named as the cause of his death. Magnitsky’s defense lawyers claimed that he had complained of health problems and requested a thorough medical examination.
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Magnitsky’s Mother Says Her Son Was Tortured To Death
The mother of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky says the administration of a Moscow detention center created “torture conditions” that killed her son while he was in custody.
Natalia Magnitskaya testified on October 2 at the trial of the sole defendant in the case — Dmitry Kratov, former deputy warden at Moscow’s Butyrka detention center.
Kratov is charged with negligence leading to Magnitsky’s death in November 2009.
Magnitskaya said that more individuals must be held accountable for her son’s death.
The judge rejected Magnitskaya’s request to launch additional investigations into the case.
Authorities say Magnitsky — the attorney for the London-based Hermitage Capital Management — died of heart failure while awaiting trial on charges of tax evasion.
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Russian prison doctor pleads not guilty of negligence in death of lawyer Magnitsky
The first Russian official charged in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after reporting a multimillion-dollar tax fraud, went on trial Thursday and pleaded not guilty.
Dmitry Kratov, formerly a doctor in Moscow’s Butyrka prison, was charged with negligence.
Kratov’s attorney, Roman Kuchin, said his client denied the charges because he was not able to ensure medical care for Magnitsky in prison due to a shortage of staff.
Magnitsky, who in 2007 who had accused Interior Ministry officials of using false tax documents to steal $230 million from the state, died in custody from untreated pancreatitis in 2009. An investigation by Russia’s presidential council on human rights concluded that Magnitsky was severely beaten and denied medical treatment. It accused the government of failing to prosecute those responsible.
Magnitsky’s relatives and colleagues say by charging the prison doctors, authorities are trying to cover up for the police officers and the investigators who denied Magnitsky’s pleas to be released. The lawyer died before he was brought to trial.
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Judge declines to return Kratov case to prosecutors, change charge to murder
The Moscow Tverskoi District Court has once again declined to return to prosecutors the case of former Butyrka detention center deputy warden Dmitry Kratov charged with negligence in connection with the death of Hermitage Capital Foundation lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The Magnitsky family lawyer asked the court to return the Kratov case to prosecutors and to charge him with murder and infliction of moral and physical suffering.
“New circumstances have become known: Kratov’s actions lead to the death of Magnitsky,” lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov claimed.
The prosecutors and the defense of the ex-Butyrka deputy warden raised objections.
“We are even unable to start a juridical inquiry; how can the judge evaluate the case?” the Kratov’s lawyer wondered.
Presiding Judge Tatiana Neverova rejected the appeal of the Magnitsky family defense. payday loan срочный займ на карту https://www.zp-pdl.com zp-pdl.com payday loan
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Russian prison doctor pleads not guilty on negligence charges in lawyer Magnitsky’s death
A prison doctor charged with negligence in the death of a lawyer who reported a multi-million tax fraud by Russian officials has pleaded not guilty.
Dmitry Kratov, formerly a doctor in Moscow’s Butyrka prison, is the first official charged in the death of Sergey Magnitsky. The trial started at Moscow’s Tverskoy court Thursday.
Kratov’s attorney Roman Kuchin said that his client denied the charges against him because he could not ensure medical care for Magnitsky due to a shortage of staff.
Magnitsky, who had accused Interior Ministry officials of using false tax documents to steal $230 million from the state, died in custody from untreated pancreatitis. A private investigation concluded Magnitsky was severely beaten and denied medical treatment, and it accused the government of failing to prosecute those responsible.
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Prosecutorial disclosure appeal launched by Magnitsky’s mother dismissed
On Tuesday, the Moscow District Simonovsky Court dismissed Sergei Magnitsky’s mother’s appeal of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s refusal to disclose the names of prosecutors who supervised the investigation of her son’s case, attorney Nikolai Gorokhov told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com).
“They are trying to conceal information from the mother regarding officials whose actions directly concern her legal rights, and also the rights and freedoms of her deceased son. In practice, an out-of-procedure body was established which exercises its powers in secret,” reads the appeal submitted by the attorney representing Magnitsky’s mother. The appeal claims that the refusal to disclose the names of those who investigated Magnitsky posthumously is unconstitutional.
Sergey Magnitsky, an auditor for the Hermitage Capital Management Fund, was charged with masterminding large-scale corporate tax evasion. He died in a Moscow pretrial detention center on November 16, 2009 after spending a year behind bars. His death sparked a public outcry and triggered amendments to the Criminal Code and a reshuffling of officials in the penal system.
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‘Magnitsky Death Doctor’ Denies Negligence Charges
A former Russian prison doctor charged with negligence in connection with the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 pleaded not guilty on Thursday.
“The accusations against me are unfounded,” Dmitry Kratov, the former deputy director of Moscow’s Butyrka pre-trial detention facility, told a court hearing.
But he acknowledged that “the conditions in which I worked prevented me from fully carrying out my duties.”
Magnitsky, who accused officials of a $230 million tax fraud, spent a year in Butyrka before his death. He died after “deliberate and inhumane neglect,” the Kremlin’s human rights body said in a report last year.
The high-profile death provoked an international outcry. The United States and Netherlands imposed travel bans on some 60 Russian officials over the Magnitsky case last year. Russia has responded in kind.
The U.S. Senate is currently mulling a bill named for Magnitsky that would penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses.
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Boss of slain Russian whistleblower to Haaretz: Obama administration trying to appease Putin
Ahead of the Russian President’s visit to Israel, the founder of a company that invested in Russia, and was kicked out, says the U.S. is appeasing Putin for the sake of bilateral trade ties.
While President Vladimir Putin will be heading next week to Israel for a short visit that will include unveiling the Second World War Red Army memorial in Netanya, and meeting with Israeli top officials, – in Capitol Hill, businessman Bill Browder will be lobbying hard to convince Congressmen that Russia under Putin’s third presidential term is not a country that deserves “restart” of relations, not to mention what he calls the “appeasement” of Putin’s regime.
Bill Browder, co-founder and CEO of the British Hermitage Capital Management company, invested in Russia only to be pushed out of the country. In 2009, His Moscow lawyer, 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested after he exposed government corruption. While in prison Magnitsky was apparently beaten to death in his cell.
Congress is currently in the process of replacing the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which linked trade relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union with the USSR’s treatment of its Jewish population, with a new law, named after Sergei Magnitsky. The Magnitsky Act is supposed to deny visas to Russian officials accused of human rights violations, and is being harshly criticized by the Kremlin, which warned that its passage would hurt relations between the two countries and could even lead to possible retaliatory steps.
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Russia drops charges against doctor in Magnitsky case
Russia said Monday it had dropped charges against a doctor implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, sparking accusations that the authorities had no interest in seeking justice in the case.
Larisa Litvinova was one of only two people, both prison doctors, to be charged after a long-running and high-profile investigation into what activists see as one of Russia’s most outrageous post-Soviet rights violations.
Magnitsky died in 2009 at the age of 37 from untreated medical conditions including acute pancreatis after being held in a notoriously squalid prison during a fraud probe against his client, US investment firm Hermitage Capital.
“The Investigative Committee has decided to drop the criminal case against doctor and laboratory assistant at the pre-trial detention centre, Larisa Litvinova,” investigators said in a statement said.
It cited “the elapsing of the statute of limitations,” saying a new law had come into force since the probe began, meaning that investigators had to bring a case to trial within two years.
Litvinova was charged last August with causing death by negligence, while her boss, the detention centre’s deputy medical chief Dmitry Kratov, was charged with negligence.
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