Two Russians Included in the European Parliament’s Magnitsky List Welcomed at the European Parliament for Anti-Magnitsky Event

April 29, 2016

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Two Rus­sians Includ­ed in the Euro­pean Parliament’s Mag­nit­sky List Wel­comed at the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment for Anti-Mag­nit­sky Event

29 April 2016  – Two Rus­sians on the Euro­pean Parliament’s Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions List were wel­comed at the Euro­pean par­lia­ment for the pre­miere of a film by a Russ­ian film­mak­er Andrei Nekrasov, defam­ing the mem­o­ry of Sergei Magnitsky.

Among those present in the audi­ence in Brus­sels on April 27^th were ex police offi­cer Pavel Kar­pov, named in Sergei Magnitsky’s tes­ti­mo­ny for his role in the cus­tody of doc­u­ments and files, used in the fraud to steal $230 mil­lion from the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment, and Andrei Pavlov, the lawyer who took part in sham court pro­ceed­ings, described in Sergei Magnitsky’s tes­ti­mo­ny as part of that same crime.

Pavel Kar­pov and Andrei Pavlov are No 7 and No 15 on the Euro­pean Parliament’s Mag­nit­sky list, which rec­om­mends the Euro­pean Coun­cil to impose visa sanc­tions and asset freezes on those who were involved in the crimes against Sergei Magnitsky.

#7: KARPOV, Pavel, born 27 August 1977;

#15: PAVLOV, Andrey (a.k.a. Pavlov, Andrei), born 7 August 1977;

In his tes­ti­mo­ny on the fraud, Sergei Mag­nit­sky described the roles of both Pavel Kar­pov and Andrei Pavlov. In par­tic­u­lar, Sergei Mag­nit­sky said in his 5 June 2008 testimony:

“Many times the lawyer of Fire­stone Dun­can (CIS) Lim­it­ed and the company’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives request­ed Inves­ti­ga­tor P.A. Kar­pov to return the seized doc­u­ments that were not relat­ed to the case inves­ti­gat­ed by P.A. Kar­pov, but the inves­ti­ga­tor kept delay­ing the return of the doc­u­ments say­ing that there were many doc­u­ments and it took him much time to fin­ish exam­in­ing them.”

“I can con­firm that the seized fold­ers, which I also used in my work, con­tained the orig­i­nals of the lat­est edi­tions of the Arti­cles of Asso­ci­a­tion of LLC Kameya, LLC Par­fe­nion, LLC Rilend and LLC Makhaon, the orig­i­nal cer­tifi­cates of the tax reg­is­tra­tion, the orig­i­nal cer­tifi­cates of the legal enti­ty state reg­is­tra­tion, the orig­i­nal Min­utes of meet­ings and res­o­lu­tions of the sole par­tic­i­pants of the com­pa­nies, the orig­i­nal legal­ized cer­tifi­cates con­firm­ing the res­i­den­cy of the com­pa­nies’ par­tic­i­pants and some oth­er doc­u­ments,” tes­ti­fied Sergei Magnitsky.

In his tes­ti­mo­ny Sergei Mag­nit­sky described fic­ti­tious claims filed against Hermitage’s com­pa­nies in Rus­sia and the appear­ance of Pavlov in those sham court proceedings:

“Almost at once it became clear that the fil­ing and con­sid­er­a­tion of the said claims were asso­ci­at­ed with fraud­u­lent actions because as it fol­lowed from the deci­sions of the Arbi­tra­tion Court of Saint-Peters­burg and the Leningrad Region dat­ed 3 and 7 Sep­tem­ber 2007, the court hear­ings had been attend­ed by the LLC Makhaon rep­re­sen­ta­tive Yu.M. Maioro­va and the LLC Rilend rep­re­sen­ta­tive A.A. Pavlov, who pre­sent­ed Pow­ers of Attor­ney said to be issued by those com­pa­nies and dat­ed 24 August 2007. It means the Pow­ers of Attor­ney were forged ones because the com­pa­nies’ seals had been seized and were kept at the Main Inves­tiga­tive Depart­ment of the Main Inter­nal Affairs Depart­ment of Moscow.”

Four months lat­er, on 7 Octo­ber 2008, Sergei Mag­nit­sky con­firmed his 5 June 2008 tes­ti­mo­ny and added in his tes­ti­mo­ny the dis­cov­ery of “the embez­zle­ment of bud­get funds that took place in excess of Five Bil­lion rubles, which was obvi­ous­ly com­mit­ted by the same group of per­sons that used ille­gal re-reg­is­tra­tion of Par­fe­nion LLC, Makhaon LLC, and Rilend LLC and fil­ing claims against those com­pa­nies as a tool for embez­zling mon­ey from the state trea­sury.”

At the event held in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment sev­en and half years lat­er, on 27 April 2016,  Pavel Kar­pov was giv­ing inter­views to Russ­ian TV sta­tions, and Andrei Pavlov was able to approach Hei­di Hau­ta­la, MEP from Fin­land, who host­ed the event.

Andrei Pavlov greet­ing Hei­di Hau­ta­la, MEP, 27 April 2016

Lithuan­ian MEP Petras Aus­tre­vi­cius inter­rupt­ed pro­ceed­ings in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment the fol­low­ing day, on 28 April 2016, to draw atten­tion to the fact that two Russ­ian cit­i­zens whose names were placed on the Euro­pean Parliament’s Mag­nit­sky list, had been allowed access to the par­lia­ment the pre­vi­ous day.

Mr Aus­tre­vi­cius, MEP, said:

“I deplore this hap­pen­ing with­in the walls of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment,” it was, he went on, “an issue of the integri­ty of our own decisions.”

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Let­ter from the Mag­nit­sky Fam­i­ly about the film of Andrei Nekrasov defam­ing mem­o­ry of Sergei Magnitsky

http://russian-untouchables.com/docs/Letter%20from%20the%20Family%20of%20Sergei%20Magnitsky%20on%20Nekrasov%20movie.pdf

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