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EU president: ‘Magnitsky case is emblematic for Russia’
EUobserver
20 April 2012, BY ANDREW RETTMAN
BRUSSELS – EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy has said in a letter to outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that Russia’s internatioinal reputation is at stake over the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The one-page note, dated 18 April and seen by EUobserver, says: “The case of Mr Magnitsky has come to symbolise the state of the rule of law and judiciary in the Russian Federation for Russia’s friends and observers abroad. Bringing this emblematic case to credible and thorough conclusion before the end of your term would be of symbolic relevance and send a very important signal for the future of Russia.”
It comes one week before Russian investigators on 24 April are to say if a prison doctor caused Magnitsky’s death in custody in 2009 by “negligence.”
It also comes before Medvedev steps down in early May, five years after taking up office and promising to end “legal nihilism” in the country.
Magnitsky was jailed, starved of pancreatic medication and beaten to death when he exposed a tax-embezzling mafia involving top people in the interior ministry and the state security service, the FSB. Prosecutors have so far postponed the outcome of the probe 11 times. Last year – in a legal first – they launched a new case against the dead man himself.
Nobody in Brussels believes that a prison doctor is responsible.
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VOTE ON TORTURE BAN
MPs are to vote this week on a motion calling on the Government to freeze the assets of the Russian officials involved in the death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and ban them from entering the UK.
The US State Department has already banned them from entering the United States and frozen the assets they have there.
Magnitsky, who worked for British hedge fund Hermitage Capital, died in a Russian prison in 2009 after being tortured. He was jailed after blowing the whistle on corrupt Russian government officials. hairy girls займ онлайн https://zp-pdl.com/online-payday-loans-in-america.php https://www.zp-pdl.com payday loan
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Police raid Moscow tax service office, home of deputy head
Police on Wednesday raided the office of the Moscow Administration of the Federal Tax Service and the home of its deputy head as part of an investigation into the attempted theft of $70.7 million by a St. Petersburg firm, a police source said.
The case also involves ten incidences of theft committed by the firm ES – Kontraktstroi – under the guise of VAT refunds, the source said.
“From 9 a.m. raids have been continuing in the office of the Moscow administration of the Federal Tax Service…, and in the building of [Moscow’s] tax inspection number 28 ….Moreover, the home of deputy head of Moscow’s Administration of the Federal Tax Service Olga Chernichuk was also raided,” the source said.
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A Year Later, No Charges In Magnitsky Death As EU Mulls Visa Bans
It has been more than a year since Hermitage Capital Management lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in prison, but it will be at least another three months before Russian officials are prepared to make any definitive statements about it.
The investigation into Magnitsky’s Nov. 16, 2009, death in one of Moscow’s most notorious jails has been extended until Feb. 24. Magnitsky, who was awaiting trial on tax evasion charges, alleged before his death that he was tortured and denied adequate medical care—and that Russian authorities were seeking to pressure him into withdrawing allegations of fraud directed at the country’s interior ministries and into implicating Hermitage founder William Browder.
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