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The auditor's case has an audit
The case against the auditor Sergei Magnitsky will probably be investigated again. So decided in the prosecutor's office. If Magnitsky is still justified, it will be a landmark event, but will entail a problem for security forces. If they accuse and do this without the proper reason, it will prove that the law enforcement system does not work.
The Magnitsky case has a new turn. Apparently, the case against the auditor himself will be investigated, whom the investigation considered guilty of laundering money and optimizing taxes. According to Kommersant, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the need to resume the investigation of the auditor case in connection with the newly discovered circumstances - the decision of the Constitutional Court. ”
The resumption of the case against the late lawyer Magnitsky is a direct consequence of the decision of the Constitutional Court, which recently canceled the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure, according to which the death of the defendants allows the court and the investigation to terminate the case without the consent of relatives. The criminal case against Magnitsky was terminated by the UK at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which considered that Magnitsky could not rehabilitate. However, the consent of his relatives - mother and wife - was not received. So the Prosecutor General was quite in its right when she decided to resume the case.
Now the late lawyer can rehabilitate that he will give his supporters an additional reason to demand the punishment of the perpetrators in the fact that the innocent (if the investigation suddenly establishes) was sitting and died in a pre -trial detention center.
Such a turn would be very unpleasant for those who directly made decisions in the Magnitsky case and, in particular, for many of those who are listed, say, in the list of American Senator Cardin. In fact, this would be evidence of their guilt, at least in criminal negligence.
However, there is a clear reluctance, primarily in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to take the Magnitsky business - I really do not want the police who put the Magnitsky and now turned into the police, to punish their own officers. Today, for example, the Hermitage Capital, for which the late lawyer worked, said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs considered the conclusions of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation to develop civil society and the human rights in the Magnitsky case and refused to conduct a new verification on the fact of the death of a lawyer. As the “Echo of Moscow” said in the fund, the Ministry of Internal Affairs considered that all complaints have already been discussed earlier and there were no reasons for the new consideration.
De facto investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs demonstrate some unwillingness to resume the “Magnitsky case” by a new one. And one gets the impression that they are afraid of the consequences not at all for the memory of the deceased, but quite specific to colleagues in the department and the power shop. Followed by probable cleaning of power structures in the framework of the next re -certification.
However, the security forces, apparently, will have to move. Since there is a request not only on the part of the “society” unobvious for them, but also a specific requirement to understand President Medvedev. Which, moreover, periodically raises the topic again.
In the struggle between the protection of the "honor of the uniform" by all means and direct instructions of the authorities there is a draw.
On the one hand, police officers do not want to react. On the other hand, the prosecutor's office resumes the investigation of the case against Sergei Magnitsky. Next is the fork.
If the case is still investigated in favor of Magnitsky, it means that the law enforcement system as a whole still has a chance not only to change, but also for self-reform. Let the president, even under the serious pressure of various public organizations,, even because of the desire to shift the bulk of guilt to employees of the adjacent power department, but the fundamental possibility of recognizing their own mistakes will be proven.
In the case of a decision that Magnitsky was engaged in fraud with taxes. It may turn out that Sergei Magnitsky is indeed not such a crystal -pure person as his head of Hermitage Capital Brighter describes. It will be sad, because too much the forces of the many people were spent on lifting Magnitsky to the banner. Which, otherwise, in no way cancel the fact that a person in prison has not been provided with adequate assistance. And according to his colleagues and human rights defenders, they completely tortured, knocking out confessions.
If Magnitsky’s guilt is not found irrefutable evidence of the guilt of Magnitsky, then it turns out a priori to many understanding and extremely ugly thing. Namely: many security forces are extremely weakly engaged in their direct responsibilities, revered them optional.
Moreover, it is not possible to reform the system, since it is extremely stable and very successfully resists any attempts to normalize its work. It will be inevitable to break such a system. “From above” this will be done or “from below”, the costs will be extremely large.