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Мама Сергея Магнитского обратилась с заявлением о халатности следователей, расследующих смерть ее сына
April 19, 2012
«Уголовное дело стало процессуальным инструментом, посредством которого отвлечено внимание от истинных причин и обстоятельств политически мотивированного уголовного преследования и гибели моего сына, а лица, его преследовавшие и убившие, ранее им разоблаченные в причастности к масштабным хищениям государственных средств, пребывают на свободе, роскошествуя в тех благах, которые они себе создали путем хищения бюджетных денег», — говорится в заявлении Натальи Магнитской. (more…)
Magnitsky Case Files Identify New Information on Russian Officials Involved In $230 Million Tax Fraud Cover-Up
April 18, 2012
New files from the posthumous case files against Sergei Magnitsky reveal the name of the main “expert” witness used to absolve Interior Ministry officers from liability for the $230 million corruption scheme uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky. The expert was Maxim Tretiakov, head of the legal department of Moscow Tax Office No 28, the office at the centre of the corrupt tax refunds scheme.
In return for his “friendly testimony”, the Interior Ministry officers who themselves had a conflict of interest, exonerated him and his colleagues and claimed that the $230 million tax refund was executed by a “sawmill employee” and a “jobless” individual, and that all bank records proving otherwise had burned in a truck explosion and cannot be traced. As a result, officials from the Moscow Tax Office Number 28 were able to continue with their corrupt scheme, and were recently shown to have executed $1 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over a four-year period from 2006 – 2010. Families of the tax and Interior Ministry officers involved in the scheme have become $47 million richer after the thefts and have been shown to invest in luxurious foreign real estate and foreign bank accounts. (more…)
Для алиби своих сотрудников по делу Сергея Магнитского МВД использовало «эксперта» из налоговой инспекции, осуществлявшей незаконные возвраты налогов на миллиарды рублей
April 18, 2012
Из ставших доступными Hermitage Capital материалов по делу Сергея Магнитского стали известны сенсационные подробности взаимодействия чиновников налоговой инспекции №28, через которую похищались миллиарды рублей, и сотрудников МВД, которым было поручено расследовать эти хищения. Из этих документов выяснилось, что МВД создало «алиби» своим сотрудникам Кузнецову и Карпову с помощью чиновника налоговой инспекции №28, опустошившей казну на более чем 20 миллиардов рублей.
Максим Третьяков, руководитель юридического департамента налоговой инспекции № 28 по г. Москве, был привлечен в качестве «специалиста» по налоговым вопросам для оправдания захвата сотрудниками МВД Кузнецовым и Карповым документов трех российских компаний фонда Hermitagе. Сделано это было, несмотря на явный конфликт интересов, поскольку захваченные документы были использованы коллегами Третьякова по 28-ой налоговой инспекции в целях незаконного перечисления мошенникам 5,4 миллиардов рублей бюджетных средств, а допрос «специалиста» Третьякова проводил такой же заинтересованный следователь МВД — Карпов. В благодарность Максим Третьяков был освобожден от уголовной ответственности за соучастие в хищениях. Само же расследование хищений государственных денег велось следователями МВД Карповым и Сильченко с привлечением оперуполномоченного МВД Артема Кузнецова, изобличенного юристом фонда Hermitage Сергеем
Магнитским как соучастника хищений.
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MAGNITSKY CASE FILES SHOW RUSSIAN FSB BEHIND THE MASSIVE BUDGET THEFTS HE HAD UNCOVERED AND HIS SUBSEQUENT PERSECUTION
April 12, 2012
MAGNITSKY CASE FILES SHOW RUSSIAN FSB BEHIND THE MASSIVE BUDGET THEFTS HE HAD UNCOVERED AND HIS SUBSEQUENT PERSECUTION
12 April 2012 – Newly-released criminal case files from the posthumous prosecution case against Sergei Magnitsky reveal for the first time the central role that the FSB, Russia’s secret police, and in particular, Department K, the FSB’s Financial Counterespionage Department, played in the budget thefts uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, his subsequent persecution and the state cover-up since his death.
“The first bundle of the Magnitsky case files show the web of corruption and the merger between the FSB, law enforcement agencies and organised criminals in the scheme to steal hundreds of millions of dollars of budget funds, and to conceal the liability of government officials involved,” said a Hermitage Capital representative. (more…)
Kudrin Tries to Explain Why $1 Billion Was Stolen from the Russian Budget
April 12, 2012
Former Russian Finance Minister Kudrin Tries to Explain Why $1 Billion Was Stolen from the Russian Budget in Connection to the Magnitsky Murder on His Watch and he Did Nothing
11 April 2012 — In an extraordinary statement issued on his political website, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin explained how it was not his fault that $1 billion was stolen from the Russian treasury on his watch between 2006 and 2010 through a corrupt scheme uncovered by Hermitage Fund’s Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky (http://akudrin.ru/news/otvety-na-voprosy.html#.T4Szz3lJri8.twitter).
In his statement referring to the illegal approvals of tax refunds for millions of dollars, Mr. Kudrin said: “Employees of the Treasury cannot challenge the appropriateness of such a decision. Neither the leadership of the Treasury, nor, especially, the leadership of the Ministry of Finance interfere in this process.”
This statement came in response to a series of 7 public questions to Kudrin from Andrei Illiarionov, an opposition politician, posted in his blog on ‘Echo of Moscow’ website (http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/aillar/875912-echo/), challenging Alexei Kudrin after an independent investigation by a Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, uncovered that the same officers from the Federal Tax Service and the same organized criminals who were involved in the $230m theft that Sergei Magnitsky discovered, stole a further 11.4 billion Rubles in ($444 m) in 2009 and 2010. (more…)
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