$135 Million of Russian Government Money Stolen by the Criminal Group Exposed by Sergei Magnitsky Has Been Found in Eight Different Countries

September 24, 2012

After two years of a forensic investigation involving the authorities and courts in four different countries, journalists from Novaya Gazeta and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project have identified where $135 million of the money stolen from the Russian treasury by a criminal group exposed by the murdered lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, ended up. The money was traced through U.S., Swiss, Moldovan and Russian bank records to accounts in 8 different jurisdictions, 62 offshore accounts and 20 different banks. The money was found in Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Cyprus, Hong Kong and three Baltic republics. Read more

135 миллионов долларов США, украденных из бюджета преступной группой, разоблаченной юристом Сергеем Магнитским, обнаружены в восьми странах мира

September 24, 2012

Следы 135 миллионов долларов, украденных из российского бюджета преступной группой, разоблаченной юристом Сергеем Магнитским, обнаружены в восьми зарубежных государствах.  После похищения бюджетные  деньги были перечислены в 20 различных банков на территории Финляндии, Швейцарии, Австрии, Гонконга, Кипра и трех прибалтийских стран,  и затем переведены на 62 банковских счета. Обнаружение этих счетов стало возможным благодаря двухлетнему расследованию, организованному журналистами «Новой газеты» и «Международным центром по изучению коррупции и оргпреступности» на основе банковских проводок из России, Швейцарии, Молдавии и США. Read more

Комитет Европарламента рекомендует единую общеевропейскую концепцию санкций в отношении чиновников по делу Сергея Магнитского

September 20, 2012

Сегодня Комитет по международным делам Европарламента практически единогласно (62 голосами «За», 2 «Против» и 1 «Воздержавшимся») принял резолюцию, в которой рекомендует министрам стран-членов Совета Европы «ввести общепринятый список стран-участниц Евросоюза, включающий официальных лиц, причастных к гибели Сергея Магнитского, сокрытию этого преступления и продолжающемуся незаконному преследованию его родных – мамы и вдовы», а также «ввести и распространить визовые санкции в отношении этих чиновников на всей территории стран Евросоюза, наложить арест на их зарубежные активы, а также на активы членов их семей». Read more

Russian Court to Hear Negligence Indictment in Magnitsky Case

September 13, 2012

Today at 11 am, the Tverskoi District Court in Moscow will begin hearings on the indictment of Dmitry Kratov, former deputy chief of Butyrka detention center for medical negligence.

Kratov’s indictment absolves him from any responsibility for the complicity in Magnitsky’s torture and murder. It is signed by Deputy General Prosecutor, Victor Grin, the same prosecutor who launched the unprecedented posthumous prosecution against Sergei Magnitsky last year. This is the first prosecution of a dead man in Russian history.
The negligence case will be heard by Judge Tatiana Neverova, the same judge who refused Sergei Magnitsky’s petition about the violation of his rights when he was still alive.
“Under this case, the investigators and prosecutors have legalised the knowingly false version of Magnitsky’s death in detention allegedly on medical grounds, due to heart failure and made-up diagnoses of sugar diabetes and hepatitis. This medical version masks the cruel retribution Magnitsky fell victim of for his role in defending his client, the Hermitage Fund, and in exposing the criminal scheme secretly functioning over several years through which billions of roubles had been siphoned from the budget,” said lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov, counsel to Magnitsky’s mother.
At the preliminary hearing that took place on 27 July 2012, the Magnitsky family lawyer requested the criminal case in relation to Kratov be returned to prosecutors for a full investigation of his role in the conspiracy to falsely imprison, torture and murder Sergei Magnitsky. The judge refused his petition on the grounds that no other co-conspirators have been identified in the investigation into Magnitsky’s death.

Judge Neverova also refused all other applications from the family’s lawyer.

A year ago, Mrs Magnitskaya wrote to the Russian Investigative Committee naming a number of Russian officials for their complicity in the false arrest, torture and murder of her son (http://russian-untouchables.com/rus/docs/D275.pdf). The investigators have refused to open a probe into those officials named by Magnitsky’s mother and have fully exonerated them.
In November 2010, Sergei Magnitsky’s mother received the Global Integrity Award from Tansparency International on behalf of her late son honoring his fight against Russian government corruption.

See a report on the Cover up of Magnitsky’s murder:
http://www.russian-untouchables.com/rus/docs/P01RUS.pdf

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