
The head of Hermitage Capital William Brighter , whom the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation suspects of involvement in the murder of a lawyer of the Sergey Magnitsky Foundation in 2009, during a hearing in the British parliament, said that $ 30 million, which were withdrawn illegally from Russia from Russia to the UK, spent luxury objects.
This money was part of the scheme of $ 320 million, opened shortly before his death by Magnitsky, reporters of The Financial Times note.
Brauder spoke to the Committee on Internal Affairs of the House of Commons, the hearings of which were devoted to the effectiveness of the application of the Law "On Crime income." According to him, the investigation and documents received from an unnamed Russian source carried out by the Fund allowed to detect evidence that the money from the scheme that Magnitsky investigated was transferred to the UK. Funds received from Lithuanian and Cypriot accounts of offshore firms, Browner explained.
He claims that two million out of 30 million out of 30 were allegedly transferred to the UK by companies associated with banker Dmitry Klyuev , whom he called the "alleged inspirer" of tax fraud. In addition, the head of Hermitage Capital, speaking to the British parliamentarians, noted that the money received in the country was spent on luxury items.
According to information that Browner has, 240 thousand dollars were spent on yacht payment, 175 thousand on rental of a private aircraft, almost 200 thousand were the services of designers working on the design of housing and yacht. Moreover, another 115 thousand dollars went to the expense of one of London’s real estate companies, almost 300 thousand - on an unlimited Glamur credit card, tens of thousands of dollars were spent on designer clothes.
In his speech in parliament, Brauder also criticized the authorities of Great Britain for inaction in the Magnitsky case. According to him, he turned to British law enforcement officers five times, but they did not begin the trial. “I can’t even describe the difference in the reaction that I received in France and the USA,” he said.
In early April, the name of Dmitry Klyuev appeared in media publications dedicated to the former prosecutor general of Great Britain, Lord Peter Goldsmith, who, according to journalists, "began to represent the interests of the lawyer of the alleged Russian criminal clan." It was reported that in March 2014 the Goldsmith was hired as a "legal adviser" by Russian lawyer Andrei Pavlov. His name was mentioned in connection with the loud case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Earlier, Pavlov worked as a lawyer-consultant of Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Klyuev, reported by the journalists of The Daily Beast. The latter is called the "organizer of the criminal community" - the so -called "Klyuyev group." Klyuyev himself denies this, wrote "Vedomosti" . The Daily Beast calls Klyuyeva "criminal authority."
In April 2014, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which he recommended the EU Council to impose sanctions on 32 members of the Klyuev group , including Pavlov. But the Council has not yet imposed sanctions either on Pavlov or other persons.
Recall, an employee of the Hermitage Capital Foundation, partner of the British Law Firm Firestone Duncan Ltd. Sergei Magnitsky died in the Moscow pre -trial detention center on November 16, 2009. He was arrested on charges of tax evasion. Magnitsky’s colleagues Brownder and Firestone head Jamison Fayerstone said that Magnitsky was arrested after he opened corruption schemes, which were involved in some officials and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including Pavel Karpov.
Topping in the investigation of one of the criminal cases related to Hermitage Capital, Karpov sought through the court in Russia and the UK the cessation of the distribution of inaccurate information. He demanded to recover from Braudor, Firestone and Hermitage Capital compensation for slander.
On June 4, 2015, the Moscow City Court decided to recover from the HERMITAGE CAPATAL, BRUDER and FIRSTOUNE Eight million rubles in favor of Karpov in favor of his claim for protection of honor and dignity.
On July 11, 2013, the Tver Court of Moscow in absentia sentenced William Brauder to nine years in the case of tax failure in the amount of more than 522 million rubles by falsification of tax returns and illegal use of benefits intended for the disabled. In the same crime, the court found the deceased and the late Magnitsky. Two weeks after that, Russia put Brauder on the international wanted list.