Ministry of Internal Affairs: Hermitage Capital discredits law enforcement officers

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused the Hermitage Capital Foundation of "another attempt to discredit the actions of Russian law enforcement agencies to the public." The corresponding application is published on the website of the police department. So at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they responded to the funds of the fund on the investigation of a new criminal case against the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in the pre -trial detention center.

The Investigative Department insists that "in the framework of the investigation of the criminal case No. 678540, the criminal prosecution of Magnitsky S. L. is not carried out." According to the department, the corresponding notification was repeatedly sent to representatives of the mother of the deceased. Applications of representatives of the Fund that their complaints in the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are ignored are called "not true."

The agency explained these statements by the intention of “interested parties”, concerned about the “active actions of investigators”, who was entrusted with case No. 678540, “to form a negative attitude to the investigation and question the results of the investigation”.

However, he assured the Department, "despite the zealous attempts of persons conducting their activities on behalf of a certain Hermitage Capital Foundation, such actions will not affect the objectivity of the investigation of this criminal case."

The department added that the case of the theft of 5.4 billion rubles, which, according to the fund, is now charged with Magnitsky, has already been investigated and the perpetrators were convicted of the crime.

The initiation of the second posthumous case against the Magnitsky Hermitage Capital reported on Monday. At the same time, as stated in the press release of the fund, the chairman of the Tver District Court of Moscow Olga Solopova refused the relatives of the deceased lawyer in access the case file.

The Fund also reported that the deputy prospector Viktor Grin, in the document signed by him, called Magnitsky, who disclosed the theft of 5.4 billion rubles from the budget, an accomplice in this crime.

On the same day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs refuted the statement by Hermitage Capital . "In the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other investigative bodies of the ministry, no new criminal cases against Magnitsky were instituted," the representative of the department said. He added that "in the Russian Federation there is no practice to initiate criminal cases against a deceased person."

However, representatives of the Fund of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not convinced. In the next press release , the number of the new criminal case of Magnitsky - 678540 - and a reference to the decision on the initiation of the case under part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code (legalization by an organized group of funds acquired by other persons by criminal means), dated July 1, 2011, were given. We are talking about 5.4 billion rubles, illegally transferred from the budget in the form of a VAT return.