Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Late lawyer’s mother wants Russia to drop probe

Kyiv News

The mother of Sergei Magnitsky, a tax lawyer whose death in detention has become a symbol of broken justice in Russia, says authorities are stonewalling her efforts to stop a posthumous investigation of her son for tax evasion.

The death in 2009 of Magnitsky, a lawyer for British hedge fund Hermitage Capital, spooked foreign investors. Washington has barred entry to dozens of Russian officials it said shared in the guilt for jailing him before his trial in conditions which rights activists said were tantamount to torture.

Two years after his death, Russian prosecutors have reopened a criminal tax fraud case against Natalya Magnitskaya’s son in what she called a violation of her legal rights.