William Browder Will Testify at the British Parliament on Details of a Russian Luxury Spending Spree in London of Money Connected to Crime Uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky

May 3, 2016

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William Brow­der Will Tes­ti­fy at the British Par­lia­ment on Details of a Russ­ian Lux­u­ry Spend­ing Spree in Lon­don of Mon­ey Con­nect­ed to Crime Uncov­ered by Sergei Magnitsky

 

3 May 2016  – Today, at 3 pm, William Brow­der, leader of the glob­al “Jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky” cam­paign, will tes­ti­fy in front of the UK Parliament’s Home Affairs Com­mit­teeabout the Russ­ian mon­ey laun­der­ing in the UK and the imple­men­ta­tion of the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act.

 

Mr Brow­der will reveal results of a six-year long inves­ti­ga­tion into the mon­ey laun­der­ing and pro­ceeds of cor­rup­tion exposed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky, which led to Magnitsky’s arrest, tor­ture and mur­der in Russ­ian police cus­tody at the age of 37.

 

The infor­ma­tion will include detailed descrip­tions of lux­u­ry pur­chas­es in Lon­don and sur­round­ing coun­ties totalling US$30 mil­lion con­nect­ed to the mon­ey laun­der­ing net­work uncov­ered thanks to Sergei Magnitsky.

 

This inves­ti­ga­tion was assist­ed by Alexan­der Perepilich­nyy, a Russ­ian whistle­blow­er who came for­ward after Sergei Magnitsky’s death and pro­vid­ed bank state­ments lead­ing to more than US$15 mil­lion being frozen by Swiss Pros­e­cu­tor Gen­er­al in a sep­a­rate Swiss mon­ey laun­der­ing inves­ti­ga­tion. Perepilich­nyy died in Novem­ber 2012 in sus­pi­cious cir­cum­stances in front of his home in Wey­bridge, Sur­rey at the age of 44.

 

The inves­ti­ga­tion into the Mag­nit­sky case has recent­ly revealed a con­nec­tion of the pro­ceeds from the crime Sergei Mag­nit­sky uncov­ered to the ‘Pana­ma Papers,’ and specif­i­cal­ly to Sergei Roldug­in, Pres­i­dent Putin’s long-time friend and cellist.

 

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

 

Jus­tice for Sergei Magnitsky

+44 207 440 1777

e‑mail: info@lawandorderinrussia.org

www.lawandorderinrussia.org

Twit­ter: @Billbrowder

 

 

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