Posts Tagged ‘tom washngton’
18
May 2011
Cold comfort for Magnitsky cause
A trio of positive signals from Russian authorities offers scant cause for celebration among friends and family of dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
“The investigation has made significant progress,” President Medvedev told journalists in a televised question and answer session on Wednesday afternoon. He added that Russian investigators are to help Swiss counterparts and that the circumstances and actual causes of Magnitsky’s death “will be known soon.”
Suspect tax officials will be inspected closely, he added something that Magnitsky’s colleagues have been demanding since the lawyer’s death in custody in November 2009.
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