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Russia Abuses Interpol Channels with an ‘All Points Bulletin’ For William Browder in Retaliation for Magnitsky Act

May 20, 2013

On 7 May 2013, the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry issued a for­mal request to Inter­pol to issue an ‘All Points Bul­letin’ to locate William Brow­der, CEO of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment and leader of the jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky campaign.

“The Russ­ian author­i­ties seek to involve Inter­pol in an abu­sive, and polit­i­cally moti­vated attack on Mr Brow­der. Any­one offer­ing the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry sup­port, or in any way pro­cess­ing their request in rela­tion to Mr Brow­der, will become part and par­cel of Mr Putin’s polit­i­cal vendetta against Mr Brow­der and attempts to cover up the mur­der of Sergei Mag­nit­sky,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tive. (more…)

Diplomatic Representatives of Five European Countries Say Posthumous Trial of Sergei Magnitsky in Russia is “Unacceptable”

April 23, 2013

Diplo­matic rep­re­sen­ta­tives of five Euro­pean coun­tries have expressed con­cern over the on-going posthu­mous trial of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, killed in Russ­ian police cus­tody three years ago, and the recent clo­sure of the inves­ti­ga­tion into his death in Rus­sia (http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/bestanden/documenten-en-publicaties/brieven/2013/03/18/brief-over-de-opstelling-van-rusland-in-de-zaak-magnitsky/brief-over-de-opstelling-van-rusland-in-de-zaak-magnitsky.pdf).

In a let­ter addressed to the Sec­re­tary Gen­eral of the Coun­cil of Europe, five per­ma­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the UK, Ger­many, Hol­land, Swe­den, and the Czech Repub­lic have asked for the Mag­nit­sky case to be raised with Rus­sia author­i­ties. (more…)

Russia To Seek Politically-Motivated Interpol Red Notice Against William Browder In Retaliation for the Magnitsky Act

April 22, 2013

Today judge Petr Stupin of the Moscow Tver­skoi Dis­trict Court issued an arrest war­rant in absen­tia for the CEO of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, William Brow­der, who has been the leader of a global jus­tice cam­paign for late Sergei Mag­nit­sky. The Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry stated their pur­pose in issu­ing the war­rant was to use it as a pre-condition to fil­ing an Inter­pol Red Notice to search for and detain Mr Brow­der wher­ever he trav­els in the world. (more…)

Russian Government Employs Anti-Terrorist Unit to Search for Hermitage CEO in Retaliation for the US Magnitsky Act

April 22, 2013

The Anti-Terrorist Depart­ment (Depart­ment “T”) of the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry has been assigned to search for British cit­i­zen William Brow­der, who has been run­ning a global cam­paign for jus­tice after the killing of his lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky in police custody.

The infor­ma­tion about the involve­ment of the Russ­ian Anti-Terrorist Depart­ment comes from court records in the lat­est ini­tia­tive of the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry to seek an arrest war­rant in absen­tia for William Brow­der. This is the sec­ond known request of an in absen­tia arrest war­rant of a West­erner in con­tem­po­rary Russ­ian his­tory. (more…)

Russian Interior Ministry Seeks Arrest Warrant for Bill Browder in Putin-directed Retaliation Against Magnitsky List

April 17, 2013

Today, the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry announced that they intend to seek a war­rant to arrest Bill Brow­der, CEO of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment. The hear­ing to seek the war­rant will take place at the Tver­skoi Dis­trict Court in Moscow at noon today. They will seek the arrest war­rant in rela­tion to spu­ri­ous charges of “steal­ing” Gazprom shares in late 1990’s-early 2000’s and “inter­fer­ing” in Gazprom’s strate­gic policies.

The mate­ri­als for this new case have been sep­a­rated by the Russ­ian Inte­rior Min­istry from the posthu­mous case against Sergei Mag­nit­sky, who is cur­rently on trial in Rus­sia in the first-ever posthu­mous trial in Russ­ian his­tory. This new case was opened a month after the Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin promised to “delve deeper” into the Mag­nit­sky case at a press con­fer­ence on 20 Decem­ber 2012, where he was ques­tioned seven times about the Mag­nit­sky affair and the ban on US adop­tions of dis­abled Russ­ian orphans, which was the offi­cial Russ­ian Gov­ern­ment response to the U.S. Mag­nit­sky Law. (more…)

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