NTV channel: William Browder used the death of Magnitsky to his advantage

The death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in 2009 in a Moscow pre-trial detention center, was not beneficial to the investigators, said the authors of the film “Browder’s List,” which was shown on the NTV channel on Thursday night as part of the program “Emergency. Investigation.”

According to the filmmakers, it is more likely that the head of the fund, William Browder, used the death of Magnitsky to his advantage.

“For investigators, the death of the only person involved in the case was not only unprofitable, it became a real disaster. Browder, on the contrary, used Magnitsky’s death to his advantage to the maximum,” the announcer said.

According to the authors of the film, after the death of Sergei Magnitsky, “William Browder’s version began to acquire new details - he started talking about the existence of a certain Klyuev gang - a terrible man who, together with investigators, allegedly organized the crime of the century, and then cold-bloodedly killed all the witnesses.”

Meanwhile, on Tuesday it became known that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is going to prosecute Browder in the case of large-scale theft of Gazprom shares . The head of the Hermitage Capital fund allegedly tried to gain access to documents of strategic importance for the Russian Federation, police said. This is also mentioned in the film "Browder's List".

In addition, Bill Browder, along with the late Sergei Magnitsky, is already facing a criminal case for tax evasion .

On the eve of the broadcast, Bill Browder spoke to PublicPost about how NTV prepared its “investigation,” what he thinks about the charges in the Gazprom case, and how he is promoting the Magnitsky Act in Europe.