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Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (Russian: Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, pronounced [sʲɪrˈɡʲej lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ mɐɡˈnʲitskʲɪj]; Ukrainian: Сергій Леонідович Магнітський; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian lawyer and tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption ...
Aug 27, 2019 · Moscow tax auditor Sergei Magnitsky had been advising the biggest foreign investment firm in Russia, London-based Hermitage Capital Management, when he alleged the theft of $230m (£185m; €206m...
Jul 27, 2021 · Swiss prosecutors have closed a decade-long investigation into the money-laundering scandal exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the latest in a string of setbacks in the country’s efforts...
Feb 3, 2015 · Sergei Magnitsky was one of my lawyers in Russia. He’d been arrested and detained in Moscow for nearly a year after exposing Russian government corruption. I knew that he had been...
The story of Sergei Magnitsky’s 2009 death became, for many in the west, an allegory of Vladimir Putin’s Russia — brutal, oppressive and corrupt. The 37-year-old accountant was found dead, his...
Jul 11, 2013 · Sergei Magnitsky died in custody in November 2009. The Magnitsky affair has soured relations between Moscow and Washington, casting a spotlight on corruption in Russia. It led to US sanctions...
Jul 11, 2013 · A Russian court found whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion on Thursday, ending a convoluted case that caused a diplomatic row between Moscow and Washington.
Aug 27, 2019 · Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia over the 2009 death of jailed whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. For many, the name Magnitsky has become synonymous with individual...
Jul 11, 2013 · Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer who was jailed as he tried to expose government tax fraud, died four years ago in a Russian prison after being denied proper medical care.
Sep 13, 2017 · Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian accountant who, in 2009, was tortured, denied medical attention, and found dead in his Moscow jail cell. Russian authorities had targeted him for his role in...
Nov 16, 2019 · Ten years ago, after uncovering a corruption scandal, financial auditor Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison. The case set a wave of sanctions in motion.
Oct 22, 2017 · MOSCOW — The case of Sergei L. Magnitsky, the Russian tax lawyer who was imprisoned in 2008 on false charges and died in jail, began as a tragedy.
Aug 27, 2019 · Moscow tax auditor Sergei Magnitsky had been advising the biggest foreign investment firm in Russia, London-based Hermitage Capital Management, when he alleged the theft of $230m (£185m; €206m ...
Jul 11, 2013 · MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in prison in suspicious circumstances, was found guilty of tax evasion on Thursday in a posthumous trial that has further...
Nov 26, 2019 · The story of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolize the brutal persecution of whistleblowers in Russia. Ten years after his death, inconsistencies in Magnitsky's story suggest he may not have...
Nov 18, 2021 · Madam President, 12 years ago this Tuesday, Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in Moscow at the hands of prison guards who, instead of treating him for the acute illness that his torturous, year-long detention provoked, beat him for over an hour.
Feb 22, 2011 · Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer specialising in tax law who worked as a counsel for the Russian investment fund Hermitage Capital Management. Sergei Magnitsky was arrested on 28 November 2008 on tax evasion charges filed as part of the investigation launched against Hermitage Capital Management.
Jul 11, 2013 · Sergei Magnitsky was convicted of tax evasion – a verdict that comes after he died in 2009 in a Moscow detention center. The United States alleges Magnitsky was beaten to death in...
The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax lawyer ...
Apr 21, 2022 · But after Browder’s Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested and found dead in his jail cell, the gloves were off.
Apr 16, 2022 · But after his Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Russian jail in 2009, he has dedicated his life to seeking justice for Putin's crimes.
Mar 26, 2021 · Firestone was the managing partner of Firestone Duncan, a Moscow law firm that hired Sergei Magnitsky to look into suspicions of massive tax fraud and theft in the takeover of companies belonging...
Jun 27, 2012 · Around this time, Sergei Magnitsky, then a thirty-five-year-old Russian lawyer for Hermitage who worked for an American firm, opened an investigation. In 2008, he testified to a Russian...
