Magnitsky’s Brother-In-Law is Summoned for Questioning at Russia’s Interior Ministry

February 27, 2013

In a fur­ther esca­la­tion of intim­i­da­tion and pres­sure on Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s fam­i­ly and col­leagues, the Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry is now sum­mon­ing Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s broth­er-in-law, Andrei Zharikov, for ques­tion­ing today. The sum­mons was issued by Inte­ri­or Min­istry Inves­ti­ga­tor P. Tam­bovt­sev (office phone stat­ed in notice: +7495 667 39 08). 

Mr Magnitsky’s broth­er-in-law was asked to “show up for ques­tion­ing,” with no fur­ther expla­na­tion, at Inves­ti­ga­tor Tambovtsev’s office in the Inte­ri­or Ministry’s Inves­ti­ga­tions Com­mit­tee, at Gazetny Pereulok in Moscow. This is the same build­ing where Mr Mag­nit­sky was brought for ques­tion­ing more than four years ago, on 24 Novem­ber 2008, and from where he nev­er left a free man.

Inves­ti­ga­tor Tam­bovt­sev was recent­ly brought on to the inves­ti­ga­tion team on the crim­i­nal case posthu­mous­ly accus­ing Mr Mag­nit­sky of the $230 mil­lion fraud, which Mag­nit­sky had uncov­ered and exposed him­self, and ulti­mate­ly led to his mur­der in police cus­tody in 2009. All com­plaints from Mr. Magnitsky’s moth­er seek­ing to cease this fab­ri­cat­ed posthu­mous accu­sa­tion have been reject­ed by the Russ­ian author­i­ties. The most recent rejec­tion was sent to the fam­i­ly by Inves­ti­ga­tor Tambovtsev.

“The com­plaint you sub­mit­ted on 24.12.2012 …has been con­sid­ered in accor­dance with the order stip­u­lat­ed by the law and it has been refused,” wrote Inves­ti­ga­tor Tam­bovt­sev to lawyer Niko­lai Gorokhov who rep­re­sents Mr Magnitsky’s mother. 

“Hav­ing tor­tured Sergei to death in 2009 and pros­e­cut­ing him after he died, the Inte­ri­or Min­istry feels such impuni­ty that it has now start­ed going after his rel­a­tives and col­leagues,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative.

The recent aggres­sive activ­i­ty of the Inte­ri­or Min­istry fol­lows direct­ly from the 20^th of Decem­ber 2012 promise by Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Putin to per­son­al­ly “delve deep­er” into the Mag­nit­sky case. 

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