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Investigators refuse to hand over Magnitsky’s DNA to his mother
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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Police Investigator Is Cleared in Death of Russian Awaiting Trial
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Monday that prosecutors had cleared a police investigator of any wrongdoing in the case of Sergei L. Magnitsky, whose death in pre-trial detention is viewed as a test of country’s law enforcement and judicial systems.
Mr. Magnitsky, 37, who had been arrested after accusing police investigators of a huge tax fraud, died in a prison clinic after complaining for days about acute abdominal pain and untreated pancreatitis.
Central decisions about Mr. Magnitsky’s medical treatment were made by Oleg F. Silchenko, the lead investigator in the case against him, who transferred him to a prison with minimal medical facilities despite a serious diagnosis. He also authorized Mr. Magnitsky’s arrest on tax evasion charges, detained him for 11 months as a flight risk and refused repeated requests for a follow-up ultrasound that had been prescribed by a doctor.
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