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Lawyer’s Mother Takes on Russian Officials
Nearly two years after her son died in custody, a slight, 59-year-old retired teacher is confronting the powerful officials who put him in prison and oversaw the system that has been blamed for his death.
Natalya Magnitskaya has avoided public attention since her only child, Sergei L. Magnitsky, died in pre-trial detention. Working for an American law firm in Moscow, he had uncovered a $230 million tax fraud and accused police of the crime. The very officers he testified against soon arrested him and charged him with the fraud.
Now, despairing that those who caused his death will ever be prosecuted, Natalya Magnitskaya has filed an official complaint with Russia’s Investigative Committee, asking for a murder investigation of Russia’s chief prosecutor, deputy interior minister and other police, security and prison officials.
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Magnitsky case reopening ‘immoral’ – mother
The mother of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, who died at a Moscow pre-trial detention center in 2009, has called the decision to reopen the case against her son “immoral” and said she is “afraid of” investigators.
Natalia Magnitskaya has submitted a statement to Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and the chief of the Interior Ministry’s Investigations Department, Valery Kozhokar.
“The Constitutional Court ruling, passed on July 14, gives relatives the right to initiate a resumption of the investigation, closed after the suspect’s death for the purpose of his rehabilitation,” it reads, as cited by Interfax agency.
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Magnitsky mother to be questioned by her son’s alleged killers
Sergei Magnitsky’s mother has been summoned for an interrogation as part of the tax evasion case reopened against the Hermitage Capital lawyer in July, 20 months after his death in a Moscow jail.
Natalia Magnitskaya will be questioned as a witness by police officers whom Hermitage accuses of torturing the anti-corruption lawyer to death, the British fund said in a statement.
Magnitskaya’s planned interrogation on September 8 is “a cynical and cruel action designed to suppress his family’s efforts in seeking justice”, Hermitage said.
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Accused doctors are ‘scapegoats’, Magnitsky’s boss claims
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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