Tuesday, April 24, 2012

From Russia with Fraud: Dead Men Tell No Tales


According to Barron’s Yuliya Chernova Russia is about to put a dead man on trial, the whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky who died in the custody of the police officials he'd earlier accused of taking part in what Magnitsky said was a huge 2007 Russian tax fraud. The $230 million swindle involved stealing the corporate identity of Hermitage Capital, a Western-run hedge fund and a legal client of Magnitsky's firm (see "Crime and Punishment in Putin's Russia," April 16, 2011). When Magnitsky told Russian authorities in 2008 that corrupt tax and police officials seemed to have victimized Hermitage, it was him they arrested. Several weeks ago, Russian prosecutors set in motion a case that will blame Hermitage and Magnitsky for the frauds he alleged….

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