Posts Tagged ‘kratov’

20
July 2011

“No Place to Retreat to”

Vedomosti

The criminal case relating to the death of Hermitage Foundation lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a prison hospital on 16 November 2009, is beginning to acquire specific outlines. The Investigations Committee has charged Dmitriy Kratov, deputy chief of the Butyrka holding center, with negligence and prison doctor Larisa Litvinova with causing death by negligence.

There were definitely more people who made decisions and issued orders, so the list of players in the case, which consists of two individuals, looks too much like “scapegoating.” Nevertheless yesterday’s [18 July] statement by the Investigations Committee should be regarded as a big step forward given all the strength of the resistance from the guardians of the honor of uniforms and judges’ robes, who persistently attempted to prove the legality of Magnitskiy’s imprisonment and incarceration. It is a big step forward, but only the first step. Investigators are promising to call to account “other officials irrespective of the posts that they have held previously and currently.” The progress of the trial will demonstrate how possible this is given the current system of relations between the branches of power.

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19
July 2011

Accused doctors are ‘scapegoats’, Magnitsky’s boss claims

The Moscow News

As the Russian media reported criminal charges against two prison doctors supposedly responsible for Sergei Magnitsky’s death, his old boss is not wholly convinced.

“While I’m sure these doctors were sadistic sociopaths for what they did to Sergei, I’m sure they were taking orders from investigators higher up,” Bill Browder told The Moscow News, minutes after a Moscow court turned down a request from Natalia Magnitskaya, the dead man’s mother, to get tissue samples for independent examination.

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19
July 2011

Investigators refuse to hand over Magnitsky’s DNA to his mother

RIA Novosti

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Monday declared legal investigators’ refusal to give the DNA of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in police custody, to his mother for a medical examination.

Magnitsky’s mother wanted investigators to provide her with her late son’s DNA to carry out an independent genetic examination to find out the cause of his death as she did not believe the official version.

Magnitsky, a former lawyer for Hermitage Capital investment fund, died after almost a year in Moscow’s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in November 2009.

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19
July 2011

Jail Officials Targeted Over Magnitsky

The Moscow Times

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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19
July 2011

Russia Starts Probe Into Lawyer’s Death

Wall Street Journal

Russian investigators on Monday launched a criminal investigation of two prison officials—one of them a doctor—in the case of the 2009 death of a hedge-fund lawyer who was jailed after alleging officers of Russia’s Interior Ministry took part in a $230 million tax fraud.

Human-rights activists hailed the probe as a possible sign of progress, noting that it was the first time government officials specifically blamed anyone since Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a Moscow jail.

More criminal cases are possible, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the government’s leading investigative organ.

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19
July 2011

Probe launched against Russian jail officials

Associated Press

Russian investigators launched a criminal probe Monday against two prison officials for their suspected role in the death of a jailed lawyer, who claimed to have uncovered a $230 million tax fraud by corrupt Interior Ministry officers.

This is the first time Russian officials have specifically identified anyone in relation to the death of Sergei Magnitsky in November 2009 after the pancreatitis he developed in prison went untreated.

But the announcement has done little to appease the lawyer’s supporters, who accuse the authorities of failing to investigate the real culprits.

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19
July 2011

More officials to be sued over Magnitsky death

RIA Novosti

The Russian presidential civil society and human rights council does not rule out that more law enforcement and state security officials could be prosecuted over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody, National Anticorruption Committee head Kirill Kabanov said on Monday.

The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against two former pre-trial detention center staff Larisa Litvinova and Dmitry Kratov.

Litvinova, who was Magnitsky’s doctor, is charged with causing the lawyer’s death by neglecting to render professional care. Her superior at the detention center, Kratov, is charged with negligence.

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19
July 2011

Russia Says It Will Try Jail Doctors in ’09 Case

New York Times
Twenty months after a 37-year-old lawyer died in pretrial detention after repeatedly requesting medical care, the authorities on Monday announced that criminal cases have been opened against two former prison doctors in connection with his death.

The announcement came as lawmakers in several countries threatened to impose sanctions on officials linked to the prosecution of the lawyer, Sergei L. Magnitsky, who had been drawn into a feud between Russian officials and his employer, Hermitage Capital, an investment fund based in London.

Russia’s top investigative body said the two suspects in Mr. Magnitsky’s death were Dr. Larisa Litvinova, who oversaw Mr. Magnitsky’s treatment during the last weeks of his life; and Dr. Dmitri Kratov, formerly the chief medical officer of Butyrskaya Prison.

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19
July 2011

Two Arrested In Magnitsky Case

Robert Amsterdam

It has been reported this afternoon that the Investigative Committee has charged two former prison doctors in connection with the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the Hermitage Capital lawyer who died in pretrial detention in 2009, after being denied treatment for pancreatitis. Since Magnitsky’s death a barrage of criticism has been launched against the Kremlin for its failure to investigate the death of the corruption-fighting lawyer, who claimed to have discovered a $230 million tax fraud case that involved high-ranking officials.

Some will greet the news of the arrests as a positive step forward, hot on the heels of the Russian Human Rights Council’s report on the affair, published ten days ago, which concluded that Magnitsky may have been beaten to death. The report’s apparent acknowledgement of official wrongdoing in the matter has been hailed by Hermitage Capital as an admission of guilt.

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