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Browder to fight on despite moves to wind down his case

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Bill Browder, the head of the Hermitage Capital, is to carry on fighting for justice in the Sergei Magnitsky case even as a criminal case against his UK-based hedge fund seems to be winding down.

Kommersant yesterday reported that documents relating to Browder’s criminal case for alleged tax evasion were sent to the head police department of Moscow’s central administrative district and Browder was removed from the international wanted list.

These changes are believed to be linked with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s order to look into the case against Magnitsky, Hermitage Capital’s lawyer who had died in pre-trial detention over a year ago. Magnitsky was held on remand in 2008 on tax evasion charges after attempting to defend Hermitage, once Russia’s top foreign investor, against the same charges.