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PACE to consider expediency of separate resolution on Magnitsky
STRASBOURG, April 27 (Itar-Tass) —— The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Bureau will consider the expediency of a separate resolution on the death of Hermitage Capital Management attorney Sergei Magnitsky in prison in late May, Assembly rapporteur on Russia Andreas Gross (Switzerland) said on Friday.
He said the Magnitsky case would be discussed at the Assembly Bureau meeting in Tirana. Also, the monitoring report on Russia due to be presented in October 2012 will also have a section dedicated to Magnitsky.
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STRASBOURG, April 27
Some Assembly deputies insist on debating the Magnitsky case and publishing a separate resolution. The demand was made first by Pieter Omtzigt (the Netherlands). He drafted the petition in October 2011 and 53 deputies, among them PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon and head of the Assembly’s second largest political group European People’s Party Luca Volonte, signed it. The number of deputies supporting the petition has grown by approximately a third.
Omtzigt sent a parliamentary inquiry to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers requesting to spell out the official position on that case. The Committee expressed the hope that the culprits of the Magnitsky death would be identified and brought to justice, and the investigation would be open, rapid and efficient.
Magnitsky, 37, spent almost a year at a detention ward on tax evasion conspiracy charges. He was not given medical aid on time and died on November 16, 2009. The death caused a broad public response.
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PACE Receives Magnitsky Resolution Proposal
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has received a motion to consider a resolution on lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in custody, the head of Russia’s delegation said.
“Such a motion exists, I saw it,” Alexei Pushkov said, adding that his view of the proposal was “negative.”
A source in the Assembly earlier said that the initiative was put forward by Dutch parliamentarian Pieter Omtzigt, with the support of 69 parliamentarians from Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other countries.
In the draft resolution, PACE offers Russia cooperation in preparing a report on the circumstances surrounding the lawyer’s death. The author believes that such document would benefit the Russian side.
Magnitsky was working for the Londruon-based Hermitage Capital investment fund when he was arrested in 2008 as part of an embezzlement and tax evasion investigation. The auditor died after almost a year in custody. His death triggered an international outcry.
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