Sergei Magnitsky will be judged posthumously

Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs completed a preliminary investigation and are ready to endure the case of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky to the court for the posthumous process above it. As stated in the Fund’s statement, in a letter received by Sergey Magnitsky’s relatives and Hermitage Capital lawyers from the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Kibis, it is reported that the transfer of the case will occur immediately after the lawyers with his materials are familiarized. In addition, in the framework of this criminal case, William Brauder will judge the head of Hermitage Capital Management.

"Modern history does not know cases of posthumous trials. In any country of the world, people who have passed away, and in this case are a person who was deliberately killed by employees of the investigative bodies of Russia. Correspondence processes are the rudiment of the Stalin regime, the" fig list "of the pseudo -dimension, which is hiding today by the repressive Russian justice," the representative of Hermitage said Capital, commenting on the letter of the investigator.

The only way to avoid the posthumous process over Sergei Magnitsky is to refuse his relatives from the right to protect his honor and dignity. "I repeatedly explain that in the absence of relatives of interest, justifying the further consideration of the case, including the desire to protect the honor and dignity of the deceased, the criminal proceedings may be terminated by the investigator," Kibis reports.

"After the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, the Ministry of Internal Affairs created a sophisticated psychological torture for his relatives, forcing them to choose whether to agree with the posthumous persecution of a person close to him or with a denial of his name. After the Human Rights Council published conclusions about the illegality of the arrest and persecution of Sergei Magnitsky, the Ministry of Internal Affairs does everything to justify the illegal actions of his investigators," said the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Representative of Hermitage Capital.

On December 28, it became known that investigator Kibis invited the mother of the deceased lawyer Natalia Magnitskaya to come to him or abandon the right to rehabilitation of his son. Simultaneously with the agenda of the turnout, Kibis notified Magnitsky of the assignment of the status of a "legal representative of the deceased accused", which is not provided for by law.

Earlier, the investigator Kibis refused to consider as “not related” to the conclusions of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on the illegality of the arrest of Magnitsky and gross violations of his rights from interested investigators. The report containing these conclusions was transferred by the head of the Council by Mikhail Fedotov President Dmitry Medvedev along with a report in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a statement demanding the resignation of the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov in connection with large -scale frauds in the elections.

At the initiative of William Broud and his colleagues in the world, a campaign was launched to introduce visa and economic sanctions against Russian officials involved in the death of Magnitsky and the embezzlement of multi -millionaire state funds revealed by him. In July last year, sanctions were imposed in the United States. Currently, the issue of such sanctions is considered in various countries of the European Union and Canada. In response, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation last July resumed the persecution of Sergei Magnitsky and continued the persecution of Brauder for the same accusations of tax failure, which experts of the Presidential Council of Human Rights were previously recognized as fabricated.

Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is preparing to refer the criminal case against Magnitsky and Brauder to the court for posthumous and "absentee" consideration. “The intention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct a“ indicative ”correspondence process over me is a return to the Stalin era, but this will not stop me or thousands of other people in the world who achieve justice and require the introduction of international sanctions and the tradition of officials involved in the inhuman crime against Sergey Magnitsky,” Brownder said.