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| Subject: Statist idiots: Russia finds dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax 'fraud' Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:45 am | |
| A MOSCOW court convicted dead Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion, provoking outrage over the posthumous prosecution.
Magnitsky was convicted along with his former boss, the US-born British citizen William Browder, the head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund who was sentenced in absentia to nine years in a prison colony.
However the case against Magnitsky ended with his verdict and a refusal to exonerate him, as the authorities cannot take a case against a dead man any further.
The trial of a deceased person is almost unprecedented in post-Soviet Russia, and has raised concerns that the judicial authorities under President Vladimir Putin continued to persecute Magnitsky because of the political furore over his death.
Magnitsky's death led to one of the biggest Washington-Moscow rows in years with the US late last year passing the "Sergei Magnitsky Act" which imposed a visa ban and froze the assets of Russian officials implicated in the lawyer's death.
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The move infuriated Moscow, which in retaliation passed legislation prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian children.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/russia-finds-dead-lawyer-sergei-magnitsky-guilty-of-tax-fraud/story-fni0xs63-1226678165628 |
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