Medvedev: The theme of Magnitsky is not interested in anyone

The theme of the "Law of Magnitsky" and the response steps of Russia was not discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. “There was no business discussion,” Medvedev said in an interview with the Vesti on Saturday on the Russia 1 channel. “It is not interesting to anyone, except, perhaps, of individual citizens who, in fact, earn political capital on this. No businessman raises this topic. But, unfortunately, this has become a factor in political life. We will somehow survive it, but I think that this is still for our American partners Not the best situation. "

In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Davos, Medvedev said that Sergei Magnitsky was not a fighter for the truth and everything in history with him, except for the investigation of his death, was politicized fiction. Medvedev found it difficult to say, an investigation against Magnitsky with an acquittal or accusatory sentence would end, while noting that it was necessary to understand the causes of death of the Hermitage Capital lawyer in prison. “This is really a very important task for the state. Everything else is a politicized fiction of individual citizens, some of which are also spinning in Davos in order to justify its own commercial operations in Russia,” the prime minister said.

Magnitsky, lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation, died in November 2009 in the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center. In society, his arrest is associated with the desire of the authorities to cover the criminal "group of Klyuyev", the owner of a universal bank of savings. Hermitage Capital proves that Klyuyev’s group is closely cooperating with a number of state departments. Officials of these departments, accused by the lawyers of the fund of persecution and the death of the auditor, are included in the so -called "Magnitsky list". In December 2012, the US President signed a law prohibiting the defendants in this list of entry into the country. The campaign for the adoption of a similar law is carried out in some European countries.

A number of states are already investigating the activities of the Klyuyev group. One of them is Switzerland, where people involved in tax fraud in Russia also have accounts. In November, in the UK, under unknown circumstances, businessman Alexander Perepilichny died, who, according to the British media, provided Swiss information regarding the “Klyuyev group”. Also, the investigation on the identified magnetic facts of money laundering in local banks has begun in Cyprus. On January 9, 2013, it became known that the accounts according to Magnitsky were frozen in Switzerland. On January 22, a similar message came from Lithuania.

In the case of the death of Magnitsky, the prosecution was charged to the former deputy chief of the Butyrka pre -trial detention center Dmitry Kratov and the doctor of this pre -trial detention center Larisa Litvinova. In April 2012, Litvinova was released by investigators from liability in connection with the expiration of the statute of limitations. In December 2012, the Tver court of Moscow justified Kratov.