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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