Sergei Magnitsky’s Response to Moscow Judge Yegorova

December 11, 2009

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Yes­ter­day, Olga Yegoro­va, Chair­woman of the Moscow City Court, jus­ti­fied the actions by Moscow judges Podoprig­orov, Krivoruchko, Ukhnal­e­va, Stashina, who sanc­tioned the arrest and pro­longed deten­tion of 37 year-old Sergei Mag­nit­sky, who died in prison on 16 Novem­ber 2009, after 12 months in deten­tion with­out trial.

Judge Yegoro­va claimed yes­ter­day that the case against Mag­nit­sky had been open for four years. In real­i­ty the case was opened on 4 Octo­ber 2004 and sub­se­quent­ly closed on 5 May 2005 when it was deter­mined that no crime had tak­en place. On 27 Feb­ru­ary 2008, short­ly after HSBC filed com­plaints about Moscow Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials’ involve­ment in the theft of Her­mitage Fund com­pa­nies, the same offi­cials impli­cat­ed in the HSBC com­plaint per­son­al­ly trav­elled to Kalmykia and pres­sured local inves­ti­ga­tors to reopen the case. Until the day of his arrest, 24 Novem­ber 2008, Mag­nit­sky was not a sus­pect in the case. More­over, he had no for­mal role in the com­pa­nies in 2001.

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Sergei Magnitsky was declared free of heart disease 5 days before his death

December 10, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

Sergei Mag­nit­sky, a 37-year old anti-cor­rup­tion lawyer who died in a Russ­ian pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­tre on 16 Novem­ber 2009, was not suf­fer­ing from heart dis­ease accord­ing to offi­cial med­ical reports made five days before his death. State­ments made today by uniden­ti­fied Russ­ian law enforce­ment agency sources claim Mag­nit­sky died of a car­dio­vas­cu­lar disease.

On 11 Novem­ber 2009, one day pri­or to the court hear­ing that pro­longed the pre-tri­al deten­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, head of Butyr­ka deten­tion cen­tre Kom­nov and deputy head Kra­tov wrote to the court and the lawyers stat­ing that Sergei Mag­nit­sky suf­fered from chole­cystopan­cre­ati­tis and had a nor­mal heart function:

“Let­ter No 501212 – 8828 of 11.11.09. Fol­low­ing your request we would like to inform you that Sergei Leonidovich Mag­nit­sky, born 1972, was treat­ed in med­ical depart­ment of FBU IZ-77/2 UFSIN of Rus­sia (“Butyr­ka”) and received the fol­low­ing diag­no­sis: gall­stones and acute chole­cystopan­cre­ati­tis. His gen­er­al health con­di­tions are sat­is­fac­to­ry. Elec­tro car­dio­gram – sinu­soid rhythm is cor­rect, 66 beats per minute, EOS (elec­tri­cal axis of heart) is nor­mal, blood pres­sure – ¹²⁰⁄₇₀, pulse 72 beats per minute. Deemed able to par­tic­i­pate in court and inves­tiga­tive activ­i­ty. Deemed able to be held in pre-tri­al deten­tion. Head of FBU IZ-77/2 UFSIN of Rus­sia (“Butyr­ka”) Lt Colonel D. V. Kom­nov, Deputy Head of FBU IZ-77/2 UFSIN of Rus­sia (“Butyr­ka”) Respon­si­ble for med­ical issues Lieu­tenant Lt Colonel D. B. Kratov.”

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Further Attack on the Hermitage Fund and Its Lawyers after Death of Sergei Magnitsky

December 4, 2009

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Con­vict­ed Felon Hires Top Lawyer to Fur­ther Attack on the Her­mitage Fund and Its Lawyers after Death of Sergei Magnitsky

4 Decem­ber 2009  — Vic­tor Markelov, the man con­vict­ed of the sin­gle largest tax rebate fraud in Russ­ian his­to­ry — $230 mil­lion — has hired a pres­ti­gious lawyer from his jail cell in a last-ditch effort to pre­vent HSBC and the Her­mitage Fund from regain­ing con­trol over their three stolen Russ­ian invest­ment com­pa­nies and vin­di­cat­ing their Russ­ian lawyers who defend­ed the Fund against com­plex frauds involv­ing Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials. The hear­ing will take place on 7 Decem­ber 2009 at 16:00 in Hall No 1 of the 10^th Arbi­tra­tion Court of Appeal, ⁶⁸⁄₇₀, build­ing 1, Sadovinch­eskaya Street, Moscow.

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