Putin Promotes Notorious Judge Who Presided Over the Posthumous Trial of Sergei Magnitsky

October 25, 2013

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin has pro­mot­ed judge Igor Alisov, who presided over the first tri­al of a dead man in the his­to­ry of Rus­sia. The tri­al end­ed with the posthu­mous con­vic­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky in July this year.

Pres­i­dent Putin’s decree was pub­lished on the offi­cial Krem­lin web­site show­ing that judge Igor Alisov has been upgrad­ed from the Tver­skoi dis­trict court to the Moscow City Court, which is a sig­nif­i­cant pro­mo­tion (http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?3584338)

The Pres­i­den­tial decree was signed on 29 August 2013, just one month after judge Alisov con­vict­ed Sergei Mag­nit­sky and refused his rehabilitation.

“This looks like Judge Alisov’s pay­back for sell­ing his soul to Vladimir Putin. He may enjoy the pres­tige and crea­ture com­forts of his new posi­tion, but his­to­ry will not be kind to the man who allowed a man killed in cus­tody to be pros­e­cut­ed and con­vict­ed after his death, — said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tive. – This vin­dic­tive move towards Sergei Mag­nit­sky shows how deeply vul­ner­a­ble Vladimir Putin feels about the cor­rup­tion uncov­ered and brave­ly exposed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky and his colleagues.”

Judge Igor Alisov also exon­er­at­ed all offi­cials impli­cat­ed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky in the $230 mil­lion theft by pin­ning the entire theft on an “unem­ployed” man in a 2011 sen­tenc­ing ruling.

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