BBC HardTalk: Lawyer’s death ‘will haunt me forever’

December 15, 2009

In mid Novem­ber 2009 a young Moscow lawyer died in police cus­tody. It was the lat­est twist in a dark tale of alleged fraud, cor­rup­tion and intim­i­da­tion which has pit­ted Bill Brow­der against the Russ­ian government.

He used to run a mul­ti bil­lion dol­lar invest­ment busi­ness in Moscow; now he calls Rus­sia a crim­i­nal state, which he is deter­mined to con­front. Has he picked a fight he can nev­er win?

WNYC The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported. The Death of Sergey Magnitsky.

December 11, 2009

In Novem­ber, a 37-year-old tax lawyer named Sergei Mag­nit­sky died in a Russ­ian jail cell. Before he passed away, Mag­nit­sky draft­ed a series of let­ters and peti­tions describ­ing the squalid con­di­tions in Russia’s pris­ons. Now, those doc­u­ments have leaked and have cre­at­ed an unusu­al firestorm of crit­i­cism in a coun­try where mil­lions once per­ished in the Sovi­et Gulag. We’ll speak with Wash­ing­ton Post for­eign cor­re­spon­dent Philip P. Pan, who just returned from Rus­sia and has writ­ten about the case. You can read his arti­cle about Mag­nit­sky’s let­ters here.

WSJ: Russia Fires Prison Officials Amid Inquiry Into Lawyer’s Death

December 11, 2009

MOSCOW — Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Dmit­ry Medvedev fired sev­er­al top prison offi­cials after an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion found pro­ce­dures were vio­lat­ed in the treat­ment of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, a lawyer who died in a Moscow jail await­ing tri­al last month, a top offi­cial said Friday.

The sack­ings fall short, how­ev­er, of the broad­er inquiry into alleged police and judi­cial cor­rup­tion that Mr. Mag­nit­sky’s for­mer col­leagues have called for.

“Nobody is look­ing at why Sergei was put in prison in the first place and why his con­di­tions were made so bad,” said Jami­son Fire­stone, man­ag­ing part­ner of the Moscow law firm where Mr. Mag­nit­sky worked. “It’s a total cover-up.”

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The Economist: Sergei Magnitsky’s death in prison

December 2, 2009

Bill Brow­der, the founder of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, on the trag­ic death of a lawyer who fought cor­rup­tion in Russia

Marketplace: Lawyer’s death raises tax fraud issues

November 30, 2009

The recent death of a Moscow lawyer has caused an out­cry in Rus­sia and the U.K. The lawyer was work­ing for a British invest­ment firm and claimed to have evi­dence that Russ­ian offi­cials per­pe­trat­ed a mas­sive tax fraud. Stephen Beard reports.

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