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| Magnitsky ‘highly likely’ killed on Bill Browder’s orders, poisoned by toxic chemicals – Moscow | Magnitsky ‘highly likely’ killed on Bill Browder’s orders, poisoned by toxic chemicals – Moscow |
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| Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky may have been poisoned and his former employer, UK financier Bill Browder, was possibly behind the murder, prosecutors have found. Now, Moscow will place Browder on the international wanted list. | Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky may have been poisoned and his former employer, UK financier Bill Browder, was possibly behind the murder, prosecutors have found. Now, Moscow will place Browder on the international wanted list. |
| UK businessman Browder had much interest in the death of Sergey Magnitsky after receiving what he wanted from the lawyer, an adviser to the Russian prosecutor general told the briefing. | |
| “Based on the documents that were shown, an obvious conclusion can be made that, having received a false statement from Magnitsky that was used for provocation, Browder was interested in Sergey Magnitsky's death more than anyone else in order to avoid exposure,” Nikolai Atmonyev said. | |
| The version about Magnitsky's death in the interests of a US-born investor is confirmed by journalist Oleg Lurie, who was kept in jail with him, Russian prosecutors revealed on Monday. Back in 2009, Lurie cited Magnitsky when claiming that lawyers working for his employer, Browder, had tried to make him sign false documents regarding theft from the Russian budget. | |
| Moscow is to put Browder on the international wanted list for creating an international crime group under a UN convention. This implies extradition of a criminal even if Russia does not have a bilateral treaty on the matter with a country he is arrested in. | |
| Browder, a US-born British financier, made a fortune in Russia during the country’s chaotic transition to market economy. His Hermitage Capital Management foundation was a leading foreign investment entity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. | Browder, a US-born British financier, made a fortune in Russia during the country’s chaotic transition to market economy. His Hermitage Capital Management foundation was a leading foreign investment entity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. |
| In 2007, the foundation was targeted with a probe into possible large-scale embezzlement of Russian taxpayer money. Magnitsky, who worked for Browder and had knowledge of his firms’ finances, was arrested and held in pre-trial detention until his death in November 2009. The British businessman insisted that the entire case was fabricated and Magnitsky had been assassinated for exposing a criminal scheme involving several Russian tax officials. | In 2007, the foundation was targeted with a probe into possible large-scale embezzlement of Russian taxpayer money. Magnitsky, who worked for Browder and had knowledge of his firms’ finances, was arrested and held in pre-trial detention until his death in November 2009. The British businessman insisted that the entire case was fabricated and Magnitsky had been assassinated for exposing a criminal scheme involving several Russian tax officials. |
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| The investor then reinvented himself as an anti-Putin crusader, using the death of Magnitsky to lobby various countries to impose sanctions on Russian officials he accused of orchestrating his employee’s death. The US Magnitsky Act was passed in 2012 and, simultaneously with imposing new sanctions, it lifted the Cold War era Jackson–Vanik amendment, a trade restriction meant to punish the Soviet Union for keeping its Jews from immigrating to Israel. Moscow took the gesture as evidence that Washington simply used the Magnitsky case as a pretext to be hostile towards Russia. | The investor then reinvented himself as an anti-Putin crusader, using the death of Magnitsky to lobby various countries to impose sanctions on Russian officials he accused of orchestrating his employee’s death. The US Magnitsky Act was passed in 2012 and, simultaneously with imposing new sanctions, it lifted the Cold War era Jackson–Vanik amendment, a trade restriction meant to punish the Soviet Union for keeping its Jews from immigrating to Israel. Moscow took the gesture as evidence that Washington simply used the Magnitsky case as a pretext to be hostile towards Russia. |