Ambassadors from Council of Europe States Reject Parliamentarians’ Call to Improve Judicial Cooperation in Case Exposed by Murdered Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky

November 12, 2014

Ambas­sadors from Coun­cil of Europe States Reject Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans’ Call to Improve Judi­cial Coop­er­a­tion in Case Exposed by Mur­dered Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky

10 Novem­ber 2014 – For­eign min­istry offi­cials from the Coun­cil of Europe have issued a rejec­tion of demands by par­lia­men­tar­i­ans from 47-mem­ber states to improve inter­na­tion­al judi­cial coop­er­a­tion in the mon­ey laun­der­ing case exposed by mur­dered anti-cor­rup­tion lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. 

Chaired by Mr E. Eyyubov, Deputy For­eign Affairs Min­is­ter of Azer­bai­jan, the Stras­bourg-based ambas­sadors com­pris­ing the Coun­cil of Europe’s Com­mit­tee of Min­is­ters, the inter­na­tion­al organisation’s deci­sion-mak­ing body, refused to pro­pose any con­crete mea­sures that par­lia­men­tar­i­ans have asked for in their Rec­om­men­da­tion enti­tled “Refus­ing Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky” which was adopt­ed by over­whelm­ing major­i­ty in Jan­u­ary this year.

The par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Coun­cil of Europe’s Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly asked in their Jan­u­ary 2014 rec­om­men­da­tion the Com­mit­tee of For­eign Affairs Min­is­ters to:
“exam­ine ways and means of improv­ing inter­na­tion­al co-oper­a­tion in inves­ti­gat­ing the “mon­ey trail” of the funds orig­i­nat­ing in the fraud­u­lent tax reim­burse­ments denounced by Mr Mag­nit­sky; and, in par­tic­u­lar, of ensur­ing that the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion ful­ly par­tic­i­pates in these efforts.” (http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-EN.asp?fileid=20410&lang=en)

In the response to par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, the Com­mit­tee of Min­is­ters ignored the rec­om­men­da­tions com­plete­ly and changed the sub­ject cit­ing sev­er­al gen­er­al reports on Rus­sia issued by MONEYVAL, a Coun­cil of Europe’s body in the area of anti-mon­ey laun­der­ing. None of the reports exam­ine the $230 mil­lion mon­ey laun­der­ing case exposed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky in any way. 

“Although MONEYVAL does not address indi­vid­ual cas­es, it aims to pro­vide its mem­bers with the capac­i­ty to fight mon­ey-laun­der­ing with­in their bor­ders and to co-oper­ate in order to pre­vent trans­bor­der mon­ey-laun­der­ing. At the inter­na­tion­al lev­el, MONEYVAL works close­ly togeth­er with the Finan­cial Action Task Force on Mon­ey Laun­der­ing (FATF). The Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion is a mem­ber of both these bod­ies,” said the response from the Com­mit­tee of Min­is­ters to par­lia­men­tar­i­ans pub­lished on the offi­cial Coun­cil of Europe web­site (http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=21312&lang=en).

The diplo­mat­ic answer to Coun­cil of Europe’s par­lia­men­tar­i­ans from the Com­mit­tee of Min­is­ters adopt­ed at the Committee’s ses­sion on 22 and 24 Octo­ber in Stras­bourg fur­ther said: 

“The Com­mit­tee [of Min­is­ters] reit­er­ates its call for an effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tion and the bring­ing to jus­tice of those responsible.”

Jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky cam­paign rep­re­sen­ta­tive said: 

“This strange bureau­crat­ic response is defy­ing the efforts of par­lia­men­tar­i­ans from 47 coun­tries in Europe to achieve some mea­sure of jus­tice in the Mag­nit­sky case. It is also an aban­don­ment of Sergei Mag­nit­sky who paid with his life try­ing to stop cor­rupt Russ­ian offi­cials from steal­ing mil­lions from his coun­try. The appoint­ed diplo­mats in Europe should heed the call from the elect­ed par­lia­men­tar­i­ans who have shown the resolve of the peo­ple to see that jus­tice is done.”

The par­lia­men­tar­i­ans’ rec­om­men­da­tion was based on the inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion into the Mag­nit­sky case con­duct­ed by Coun­cil of Europe’s Rap­por­teur, Swiss MP Andreas Gross, who con­clud­ed that there was a need to improve inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion in this case because of the high-lev­el cov­er up in this case in Russia.

Rap­por­teur Gross stated:
“My ini­tial con­clu­sion, name­ly that we are in the pres­ence of a mas­sive cov­er-up involv­ing senior offi­cials of the com­pe­tent min­istries, the Pros­e­cu­tor General’s Office, the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee and even cer­tain courts finds itself fur­ther con­sol­i­dat­ed.” (Report “Refus­ing the Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky” http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/X2H-Xref-ViewPDF.asp?FileID=20084&lang=en).

Rap­por­teur Gross point­ed out that the mon­ey laun­der­ing exposed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky has been traced to a large num­ber of Euro­pean states which neces­si­tat­ed inter­na­tion­al judi­cial coop­er­a­tion in this case:

“The laun­der­ing of the funds that can be traced back to the fraud­u­lent US$230 mil­lion tax refund denounced by Mr Mag­nit­sky has involved a large num­ber of Euro­pean States… Giv­en the com­plex­i­ty of the crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions required and the obvi­ous need for inter­na­tion­al co-oper­a­tion, the Assem­bly should also seize the Com­mit­tee of Min­is­ters in order to ensure that this impor­tant affair is includ­ed on the agen­da of inter­gov­ern­men­tal co-oper­a­tion.” (Adden­dum to Report “Refus­ing the Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky”, http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/X2H-Xref-ViewPDF.asp?FileID=20345&lang=en)

Con­clu­sions expressed in the report “Refus­ing Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky” pre­pared by Rap­por­teur Gross were adopt­ed by over­whelm­ing major­i­ty this Jan­u­ary by the 47-mem­ber state Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of the Coun­cil of Europe (Res­o­lu­tion “Refus­ing the Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky” http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=20409&lang=en).

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please contact:

Jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky campaign
Phone: +44 207 440 1777
Email: info@lawandorderinrussia.org
Web­site: http://lawandorderinrussia.org

Sergei Magnitsky Justice Campaigners Demand Transparent Investigation into the Suspicious Death in Moscow of Russian Actor and Civil Rights Activist Alexei Devotchenko

November 6, 2014

Sergei Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Cam­paign­ers Demand Trans­par­ent Inves­ti­ga­tion into the Sus­pi­cious Death in Moscow of Russ­ian Actor and Civ­il Rights Activist Alex­ei Devotchenko

6 Novem­ber 2014 — Cam­paign­ers for Jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky demand a trans­par­ent inves­ti­ga­tion into yes­ter­day’s sus­pi­cious death in Moscow of Russ­ian actor, civ­il activist, and a friend of the Mag­nit­sky cam­paign Alex­ei Devotchenko.

Alex­ei Devotchenko was one of the few free voic­es left in Rus­sia who had not been killed, arrest­ed or forced into exile because of his way of thinking.

He was brave­ly speak­ing out against the polit­i­cal repres­sion, klep­toc­ra­cy and human rights vio­la­tions endorsed by Pres­i­dent Putin’s regime. Three years ago, in an act of protest against cor­rup­tion and polit­i­cal cen­sor­ship, Alex­ei Devotchenko returned the state hon­ours which had been per­son­al­ly award­ed to him by Pres­i­dent Putin in recog­ni­tion of his accom­plish­ments as an out­stand­ing actor. He explained it in an inter­view to Novy Region 2: “I am com­plete­ly fed up with this tzardom-state­dom. With its lies, cov­er-ups, state-sanc­tioned rob­bery, bribery and oth­er virtues…” (http://www.newsinfo.ru/news/2011 – 11-21/de­votchenko/766105/). Short­ly after­wards, he was attacked on a Moscow under­ground. Details of this inci­dent were report­ed on his facebook.
Last year, Alex­ei Devotchenko was a promi­nent fig­ure at the memo­r­i­al cer­e­mo­ny to mark the life and death of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, held at the Sakharov cen­tre. Alex­ei Devotchenko read poems by Russ­ian poet and Nobel Prize lau­re­ate Joseph Brod­sky who was expelled from the Sovi­et Union in 1972. After­wards, he spoke about the dif­fi­cult choic­es that every free-think­ing Russ­ian has to make, and whether it’s safe for him and his fam­i­ly to stay in the coun­try giv­en the polit­i­cal repres­sions and blood­shed that could come of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68UZDPLwtDY].
Yes­ter­day, Alex­ei Devotchenko was found dead with signs of vio­lence in a pool of blood near his apart­ment in Moscow. Despite ear­ly indi­ca­tions of a sus­pi­cious death, this morn­ing a ‘source’ in the Russ­ian law enforce­ment stat­ed that mur­der was exclud­ed, that the actor was a “drunk,” that the bruis­es were caused by glass fur­ni­ture in his apart­ment, and that a heart attack is a pos­si­ble expla­na­tion for his death (http://www.rg.ru/2014/11/06/devotchenko-site.html; http://www.interfax.ru/culture/405635).

‘We mourn the death of a coura­geous Russ­ian patri­ot Alex­ei Devotchenko. We believe that the Russ­ian pub­lic deserves to know what real­ly hap­pened. We are aware of the extent of cov­er up that is pos­si­ble. As we know from expe­ri­ence, it would not be the first time in Rus­sia that mur­der was cov­ered up by a “heart attack” and “drunk­en­ness.” We demand that the inves­ti­ga­tion of Alex­ei Devotchenko’s death is con­duct­ed open­ly and trans­par­ent­ly,” said a Sergei Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice cam­paign representative.

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign
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US Judge Makes Surprising Decision to Allow Lawyer John Moscow to Continue Representing Russian Client After Switching Sides in the Forfeiture Case from Crime Uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky

October 24, 2014

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US Judge Makes Sur­pris­ing Deci­sion to Allow Lawyer John Moscow to Con­tin­ue Rep­re­sent­ing Russ­ian Client After Switch­ing Sides in the For­fei­ture Case from Crime Uncov­ered by Sergei Magnitsky

24 Octo­ber 2014 – Yes­ter­day in the South­ern Dis­trict court of New York, U.S. fed­er­al judge Thomas Griesa denied Her­mitage Capital’s motion to dis­qual­i­fy New York lawyer John Moscow, law firms Bak­er Hostetler and Bak­er Botts for con­flict of inter­est and breach­ing their clien­t’s confidences. 

The New York case involves the first fed­er­al for­fei­ture and mon­ey laun­der­ing claim brought by the U.S. Gov­ern­ment in rela­tion to pro­ceeds from the $230 mil­lion theft in Rus­sia exposed by the mur­dered Hermitage’s Russ­ian lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky and the pro­ceeds from which have been since traced to mul­ti­ple juris­dic­tions around the world.

The US Gov­ern­ment has stat­ed in its sub­mis­sion to the court that Her­mitage is a “vic­tim” of the $230 mil­lion fraud scheme which was per­pe­trat­ed by the Russ­ian orga­ni­za­tion involv­ing Russ­ian gov­ern­ment offi­cials at issue in the for­fei­ture claim. 

In 2008, when Hermitage’s Russ­ian lawyers, includ­ing Sergei Mag­nit­sky, who had inves­ti­gat­ed and report­ed the $230 mil­lion fraud, came under attack from cor­rupt Russ­ian police offi­cers involved in the crime, Her­mitage hired John Moscow, a for­mer New York pros­e­cu­tor respon­si­ble for inves­ti­gat­ing the Russ­ian mafia and a part­ner with the U.S. firm Bak­er Hostetler. Moscow was brought on as an anti-mon­ey laun­der­ing expert to help iden­ti­fy and pros­e­cute per­pe­tra­tors of the $230 mil­lion fraud with the assis­tance of the US Depart­ment of Jus­tice and to trace through US banks pro­ceeds of the $230 mil­lion fraud, the dis­cov­ery of which lead to the false arrest and death of Sergei Magnitsky.

In his work, which last­ed eight months, John Moscow put togeth­er a strat­e­gy of using U.S. courts for sub­poe­nas, fed­er­al for­fei­ture orders and RICO in order to go after the $230 mil­lion fraud per­pe­tra­tors, and pre­sent­ed the results of Hermitage’s inves­ti­ga­tion to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Since then, Her­mitage con­tin­ued its inves­ti­ga­tion into those who ben­e­fit­ed from Sergei Magnitsky’s killing in Russ­ian police cus­tody and the $230 mil­lion fraud he had uncov­ered in coop­er­a­tion with law enforce­ment author­i­ties around the world.

Last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed the for­fei­ture claim in South­ern Dis­trict Court of New York in rela­tion to the pro­ceeds from $230 mil­lion fraud that the U.S. Gov­ern­ment has traced to a num­ber of mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar prop­er­ties in Man­hat­tan belong­ing to Pre­ve­zon, a Cyprus com­pa­ny owned by Russ­ian nation­al Denis Kat­syv, a son of a for­mer high-lev­el Moscow region­al gov­ern­ment official. 

To Hermitage’s dis­may, John Moscow appeared in court to rep­re­sent Pre­ve­zon in the case against the U.S. Gov­ern­ment. He and oth­er lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the Russ­ian own­er of Pre­ve­zon then began a cam­paign to dis­cred­it Her­mitage as a wit­ness for the U.S. Government. 

“We feel pro­found­ly betrayed by John Moscow and what he did and are dis­ap­point­ed that the court did not rec­og­nize that yes­ter­day,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative. 

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please contact:

Her­mitage Capital
Phone: +44 207 440 1777
Email: info@lawandorderinrussia.org
Web­site: http://lawandorderinrussia.org
Face­book: http://on.fb.me/hvIuVI
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French Prosecutor Makes Public Attempt to Whitewash Corrupt Russian Officials on the Magnitsky List in Ablyazov Extradition Case

October 23, 2014

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French Pros­e­cu­tor Makes Pub­lic Attempt to White­wash Cor­rupt Russ­ian Offi­cials on the Mag­nit­sky List in Ablya­zov Extra­di­tion Case

23 Octo­ber 2014 – French pub­lic pros­e­cu­tor Chris­t­ian Pon­sard pub­licly dis­missed the death of Russ­ian anti-cor­rup­tion lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky in Russ­ian police cus­tody as irrel­e­vant to cas­es of extra­di­tion to Rus­sia. He sug­gest­ed that there was no rea­son to refuse French legal assis­tance to Russ­ian offi­cials who were involved in denial of med­ical care and oth­er vio­la­tions of human rights in Mag­nit­sky case. 

Speak­ing in Lyon Court at an extra­di­tion hear­ing of Mukhtar Ablya­zov last Fri­day, Pros­e­cu­tor Pon­sard report­ed­ly said that the fact that this case was ini­ti­at­ed and inves­ti­gat­ed by Russ­ian offi­cials sanc­tioned by the US and placed on the Euro­pean Parliament’s list should have no bear­ing on the extra­di­tion of Ablyazov. 

“Accord­ing to peo­ple present to the hear­ing, the French pros­e­cu­tor pro­posed that it was fine to extra­dite peo­ple into the hands of US-sanc­tioned and EU Par­lia­ment-des­ig­nat­ed Russ­ian offi­cials respon­si­ble for Sergei Magnitsky’s false arrest, tor­ture and death,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative.

The state­ment made by Pon­sard is in direct con­tra­dic­tion to the Euro­pean Parliament’s find­ings on the Mag­nit­sky case which said in the res­o­lu­tion adopt­ed on 2 April 2014: 

“The arrest and sub­se­quent death in cus­tody of Sergei Mag­nit­sky rep­re­sent a well-doc­u­ment­ed and sig­nif­i­cant case of dis­re­spect for human rights and fun­da­men­tal free­doms in Rus­sia, …and serve as a reminder of the many doc­u­ment­ed short­com­ings in respect for the rule of law in Russia.”

The Euro­pean Parliament’s res­o­lu­tion names 32 Russ­ian offi­cials and pri­vate indi­vid­u­als involved in the Mag­nit­sky case (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140331IPR41184/html/Magnitsky-list-MEPs-call-for-EU-sanctions-against-32-Russian-officials).

“It is sim­ply impos­si­ble for France, as a mem­ber of EU, to ask for jus­tice in Sergei Mag­nit­sky case and then extra­dite some­body in the hands of exact­ly the same peo­ple who already bear respon­si­bil­i­ty for com­plete injus­tice against Sergei Mag­nit­sky,” said Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative. 

French pros­e­cu­tor Pon­sard was sup­port­ed in his attempt to white­wash the crimes against Mag­nit­sky by Denis Gru­nis, head of Russ­ian Gen­er­al Prosecutor’s inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion sec­tion, who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the same extra­di­tion hearing.

Russ­ian Pros­e­cu­tor Denis Gru­nis said he believed it did not mat­ter that the per­son who approved a request for Mr Ablyazov’s extra­di­tion was Moscow judge Alex­ei Krivoruchko, the same judge who two months before Magnitsky’s death, on 14 Sep­tem­ber 2009, refused com­plaints from Sergei Mag­nit­sky against cru­el treat­ment and denial of med­ical care and who pro­longed his detention. 

Mr Krivoruchko has been placed on both US and EU Par­lia­ment-des­ig­nat­ed Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions lists. 

The view of the French pub­lic pros­e­cu­tor is also in con­tra­dic­tion to the con­clu­sions by the 47-mem­ber state Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of the Coun­cil of Europe expressed in a report “Refus­ing Impuni­ty for the Killers of Sergei Mag­nit­sky” and adopt­ed by over­whelm­ing major­i­ty this Jan­u­ary (http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=20409&lang=en; http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-FR.asp?fileid=20409&lang=FR).

Pros­e­cu­tor Pon­sard also ignores an ear­li­er res­o­lu­tion by the same inter­na­tion­al body which con­clud­ed that mutu­al legal assis­tance to Rus­sia should not be pro­vid­ed in polit­i­cal­ly-moti­vat­ed and abu­sive crim­i­nal cas­es, high­light­ing among such cas­es offi­cial attacks on Sergei Mag­nit­sky and oth­er Her­mitage lawyers in Russia. 

Russ­ian polit­i­cal cam­paign­er and world chess mas­ter, Gar­ry Kas­parov, who attend­ed the hear­ing in Lyon, said on his Face­book account: 

“[Pros­e­cu­tor] Pon­sard dis­counts …that sev­en of the Russ­ian judges and inves­ti­ga­tors [and oth­ers] in the case are on the US sanc­tions list for the per­se­cu­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, an anti-cor­rup­tion attor­ney who died hor­ri­bly in prison… We all know there is no jus­tice in Putin’s Rus­sia. I was very much hop­ing to see bet­ter here in France.”(https://www.facebook.com/GKKasparov/posts/10152818145798307)

The court deci­sion in this pro­ceed­ing is expect­ed on Octo­ber 24, 2014, accord­ing to French press reports.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please contact:

Her­mitage Capital
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Interpol has Re-opened the Browder Red Notice Case on the Back of Magnitsky’s Posthumous Trial

July 3, 2014

Inter­pol has Re-openedthe Brow­derRed Notice Case on the Back of Magnitsky’s Posthu­mous Tri­al

3 July 2014 – Doc­u­ments recent­ly received from Inter­pol show that the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment has suc­cess­ful­ly con­vinced Interpol’s Com­mis­sion for Con­trol of Files to re-open their con­sid­er­a­tion to issue an Inter­pol Red Notice for Bill Brow­der, by sub­mit­ting Mr Brow­der’s con­vic­tion in absen­tia in Rus­sia, where he was a co-defen­dant with the deceased Sergei Mag­nit­sky in the first ever posthu­mous tri­al in Russ­ian history.

Two pre­vi­ous Russ­ian attempts to get a Red Notice issued for Mr Brow­der failed because Inter­pol deemed those attempts were polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed and vio­lat­ed Inter­pol’s con­sti­tu­tion. Short­ly after Inter­pol’s first rejec­tion of Rus­si­a’s request for Brow­der, Inter­pol’s Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary wrote an edi­to­r­i­al for the Dai­ly Tele­graph news­pa­per, cit­ing Mr Brow­der’s case as the exam­ple for why reforms are not need­ed at Inter­pol (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10082582/Interpol-makes-the-world-a-safer-place.html).

Strange­ly, Inter­pol has now decid­ed to reopen the case based onthe Mag­nit­sky posthu­mous tri­al. Interpol’s Com­mis­sion for the Con­trol of Interpol’s Files said that it plans to re-exam­ine the Russ­ian sub­mis­sion in rela­tion to Mr Brow­der at its next ses­sion in Octo­ber 2014.

“It would be a true sig­nal of the need for reform of Inter­pol if a Red Notice were issued on the basis of the first posthu­mous tri­al in Europe since Pope For­mo­sus in 897,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative.

In July 2013, Sergei Mag­nit­sky was con­vict­ed of tax eva­sion three years after he was mur­dered in Russ­ian state cus­tody, in the first ever posthu­mous tri­al in Russ­ian his­to­ry. Bill Brow­der was con­vict­ed as his co-defen­dant in the sec­ond ever tri­al in absen­tia against a West­ern­er. The tri­al was deemed to be polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed and ille­git­i­mate by the Coun­cil of Europe, the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment and numer­ous inter­na­tion­al human rights organisations.

The con­vic­tions have since been upheld by the Moscow City court in Jan­u­ary this year, in the absence of lawyers for Mr Brow­der and Mr Mag­nit­sky. Instead, they were rep­re­sent­ed by unknown lawyers appoint­ed by the Russ­ian government.

In addi­tion to pre­sent­ing Inter­pol with the con­vic­tions from that tri­al as “new evi­dence,” the Russ­ian author­i­ties pre­sent­ed a “fresh” arrest war­rant for Mr Brow­der, issued in March this year on the basis of the posthu­mous tri­al. The arrest war­rant was signed by Moscow judge Ele­na Stashina, who is sanc­tioned by the U.S. Gov­ern­ment for her role in the false deten­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky. Four days before Sergei Mag­nit­sky was mur­dered in police cus­tody, Judge Stashina pro­longed his deten­tion and denied Magnitsky’s med­ical care requests.

Judge Igor Alisov, who issued the posthu­mous con­vic­tion, was also placed on the U.S. Government’s sanc­tions list under the ‘U.S. Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act,’ for his role in con­ceal­ing the lia­bil­i­ty of offi­cials involved in Sergei Magnitsky’s death.

The doc­u­ments used in the posthu­mous tri­al were fab­ri­cat­ed by Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cers, includ­ing offi­cers Artem Kuznetsov and Oleg Silchenko, also involved in Sergei Magnitsky’s false arrest and deten­tion, and who are also sanc­tioned by the U.S. Gov­ern­ment, which pro­hibits U.S. per­sons from any deal­ings with them.

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