Russian Prosecutor Chaika Makes Unhinged Allegations Against Bill Browder, Offering No Explanation on Murder and Abuse of Office Allegations Involving His Two Sons

December 14, 2015

Russ­ian Pros­e­cu­tor Chai­ka Makes Unhinged Alle­ga­tions Against Bill Brow­der, Offer­ing No Expla­na­tion on Mur­der and Abuse of Office Alle­ga­tions Involv­ing His Two Sons

Yuri Chai­ka

14 Decem­ber 2015 – This morn­ing, Russ­ian news­pa­per Kom­m­er­sant pub­lished a high­ly emo­tion­al state­mentby Russ­ian Gen­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor Yuri Chai­ka in response to a 43-minute video expose of cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal­i­ty involv­ing his two sons and rel­a­tives of senior pros­e­cu­tors in his office.

The “Chai­ka” movie was  pro­duced by Russ­ian anti-cor­rup­tion activist Alex­ei Naval­ny and his Foun­da­tion for Fight against Cor­rup­tion. It has been viewed 3,358,619 times on Youtube since its release on 1 Decem­ber 2015.

“I’m very impressed with the inves­ti­ga­tion which went into mak­ing this movie and applaud Alex­ei Naval­ny and his col­leagues for their brav­ery in expos­ing the shock­ing alle­ga­tions against Chai­ka and his fam­i­ly, but I had noth­ing to do with the inves­ti­ga­tion, financ­ing or pro­duc­tion of this film,” said Bill Brow­der, author and Head of the Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign.

“Chaika’s 7 pages of unhinged alle­ga­tions that I am a CIA agent who was run­ning a spe­cial oper­a­tion designed to destroy Rus­sia looks like the emo­tion­al rant­i­ng of some­one who has been caught red-hand­ed and is des­per­ate­ly look­ing for an escape route,” con­tin­ued Mr. Browder.

Most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, Chaika’s 7‑page let­ter offers no expla­na­tion on the vast busi­ness empires of his two sons that were alleged­ly built on abuse of office of the net­work of pros­e­cu­tors’ offices Rus­sia-wide, raids on busi­ness­es with threats of jail-time and crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tions, rig­ging ten­ders and scar­ing com­peti­tors with pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al probes. It also ignores the alle­ga­tions that one of his sons took over a state ship­ping com­pa­ny after a man­ag­er who tried to pre­vent the takeover was killed. The inves­ti­ga­tion into that man’s death was closed find­ing no crime occurred. Pros­e­cu­tor Chai­ka also made no com­ment about the inter­na­tion­al real estate hold­ings and assets, includ­ing a five-star Greek hotel, a Swiss vil­la and Swiss bank accounts, belong­ing to his sons and rel­a­tives of his senior col­leagues in the Pros­e­cu­tor’s office.

“After watch­ing this movie, it’s clear that Pros­e­cu­tor Chai­ka has seri­ous and grave alle­ga­tions to answer to. It’s sim­ply not cred­i­ble for him to say that he can ignore them because a for­eign­er who is regard­ed as Putin’s num­ber one ene­my was sup­pos­ed­ly behind them,” said Bill Brow­der, author of “Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s Num­ber One Enemy.”

“Even if only a frac­tion of alle­ga­tions in this movie are true, this would fur­ther con­firm that Rus­sia is tru­ly being run like a mafia state by mafia-like offi­cials,” said Bill Browder.

For more infor­ma­tion please contact: 

Jus­tice for Sergei Magnitsky

+44 207 440 1777

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www.lawandorderinrussia.org

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