Magnitsky’s Colleague Sues the Russian Authorities to Compel them to Investigate Interior Ministry Officer Artem Kuznetzov and Lawyer Andrei Pavlov for Their Role in the Conspiracy to Steal $230 Million That Magnitsky Exposed

December 13, 2012

On 14 December 2012, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow will hear two lawsuits filed by Jamison Firestone, the former law partner of Sergei Magnitsky, seeking to compel the Russian authorities to investigate his prior complaints regarding the evidence of illicit enrichment of the family of Interior Ministry officer Artem Kuznetsov, and the role of lawyer Andrei Pavlov in court proceedings that were used to perpetrate the enormous fraud uncovered by late Sergei Magnitsky.

The first lawsuit states that a previously filed complaint by Firestone seeking an investigation into the illicit enrichment of the family of Interior Ministry officer Artem Kuznetsov, was attached without a reasoned ground to a Magnitsky’s death case opened into unidentified prison service officials.
“The investigator did not have reasons to attach to this case the Firestone’s report seeking an investigation into the Interior Ministry Officer Kuznetsov’s conduct against the interest of public service,” said the complaint.

The second lawsuit states that Jamison Firestone was notified that his complaint seeking an investigation of the state cover up of the criminal conspiracy to steal $230 million that Sergei Magnitsky had exposed was forwarded for a probe to the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Department in the part concerning lawyer Andrei Pavlov. More than ten months later, no findings or conclusions of the probe have been issued. “On 21 May 2012, a request was sent inquiring of the results of probe in the part concerning A.A. Pavlov given that over four months had elapsed since the date of the application…Until today, no information has been received on the results of the probe,” says the lawsuit.

The court hearings are scheduled for noon and 2 pm on Friday, 14 December 2012, and will be presided by judge Natalia Mushnikova.
Last year, Judge Mushnikova refused the lawsuit by Magnitsky’s mother seeking access to her son’s tissues and organs. Because the Russian authorities have refused to grant access to the tissues archive, Magnitsky’s family has not able to carry out an independent medical evaluation three years since Magnitsky’s death.

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