The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a new case against Magnitsky

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a second posthumous criminal case against Sergey Magnitsky, who died in the pre-trial detention center, says the Hermitage Capital’s press release of the Foundation, which came to the editorial office. At the same time, the relatives of Magnitsky by the decision of the chairman of the Tver court Olga Solopova were denied access to the case file.

"Four years after the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor’s office continue the reservation of the dead person, while acting with the knowledge and with the direct participation of one of the highest officials of the Prosecutor General Green. The actions of the repressive state apparatus were aimed primarily at pushing the rights of relatives and causing pain and suffering to them," the fund representative said.

As noted in the press release, the deputy prospector Grin, in the document signed by him, called the embezzlement from the budget of 5.4 billion rubles of the Magnitsky accomplice of this crime. "This is a deliberate lie and is refuted by the actual circumstances, in particular, filed three weeks before theft, prepared with the participation of Magnitsky, which indicates information about the preparation of the crime and participants in the criminal group," Hermitage Capital emphasizes. Instead of proper consideration, the complaint was transferred for investigation to investigator Karpov, despite the fact that it was this investigator that was named in it as one of the interested parties.

"Natalya Magnitskaya insists that the information about the participation of her son in the indicated crime is a lie, a reservation and the sophisticated revenge of influential persons to whom he opposed their criminal activity, and who, now after his death, continue to denigrate his honest name, thus trying to compromise his testimonies against them," the complaint of the lawyer of Magnitsky’s mother said.

In 2013, the first court was held on charges of non -payment of taxes by Magnitsky and head of the Hermitage Foundation William Brauder. The hearings essentially began on March 11. The process took place in absentia, as Brighter refused to come to Russia, and his lawyers and Magnitsky decided to ignore the court . The judge granted both the accused state lawyers.

According to the verdict made in July, Magnitsky developed and implemented illegal tax evasion schemes. The judge noted that he acted in the interests of Brauder, who managed the financial activities of the Fund. On this, the case against Magnitsky was discontinued in connection with his death . Brauder himself Judge Igor Alisov in absentia sentenced to nine years a general regime colony.

Amnesty International demanded that the Russian authorities stop the persecution of Magnitsky and his relatives and, on the contrary, to bring to the criminal liability of those who persecuted the deceased. The posthumous process of Amnesty International called "truly Kafkian."

In November, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Nils Muzhniex pointed out violation by Russia of the European Convention on Human Rights in connection with the post -mortem court over Magnitsky. The commissar also regretted the impunity of people involved in the death of Magnitsky.

"In relation to the emergency courts, as you know, one such court took place in Moscow in the summer of 2013 in relation to the deceased person - Sergey Magnitsky - who was found guilty of tax evasion - should pay attention to the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which decided that the National Court recognizes the accused guilty after his death, this is a violation of Article 6," the report was noted on the report published by The results of an independent assessment of the Council of Europe situations with human rights in Russia.