Photo: ITAR-TASSA number of accounts that belong to the defendants in the Magnitsky List were frozen.
"The funds will be verified in the framework of the investigation of money laundering in offshore in Lithuania with high -ranking officials from Russia, the evidence was provided by the Hermitage Capital Management Foundation," Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports with reference to the prosecutor of Donatas Puzinas.
The investigation was also begun in Cyprus and in Latvia. A few more accounts that are related to dirty Russian money were frozen in Switzerland.
"Cash, as a rule, was divided in the accounts of several companies. After the transfer, part of the money returned to the original account and then transferred to the new recipient," added Donatas Puzinas.
Recall that Sergei Magnitsky, accused of tax evasion from the organization of Hermitage Capital, died in the Moscow pre -trial detention center in November 2009. The fund accuses a number of representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies of the death of its lawyer.

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