Lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky had accused the officials of the Ministry of the Interior, using false tax documents to steal to 230 million dollars from the State. He was imprisoned for tax evasion in 2008 and died in custody in November 2009.
Private investigation concluded, Magnitsky was beaten and denied medical treatment in prison and accused the Government in order to be responsible for the absence of.
Magnitsky was Hermitage capital, an investment fund owned and run by William Browder, born in the United States, which has been banned in the Russian information security risk.
On Monday, the Russian Committee for the failure of investigations declined to charge Dr. Larisa Litvinova, it specifies the expiration of two years from the date of such probes.
Hermitage capital, sharply criticised the decision, calling it "hold no one responsible for Russia inside the reluctance on the part of the Administration, the most recent example of the" Magnitsky's death.
"By forgoing against Ms. Litvinova Russian scientists have refused to acknowledge that Sergei Magnitsky had been detained, the crime, which is the 10-year limitation, tortured," investment fund said in a statement.
The lawyer's death was seen as the litmus paper of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in relation to cement the rule of Russia. In Russia, will investors have said the arguments against torture: the death of the Magnitsky and highlight the corruption and the arbitrary nature of the Russian legal system.
Magnitsky's death, Medvedev pledged to personally research, which has been more than two years, and must be wrapped up later this month.
But on Monday, the Committee said the investigations it has closed the Litvinova, medical, Magnitsky died, because the statue of limitations in Butyrskaya prison. He was charged with negligence, which led to the death, even though the prison Magnitsky's Deputy Chief, Dmitry Kratov was charged with negligence. The fee is removed against the Kratov on Monday.
Magnitsky's family and colleagues has been accused of delaying the probe, and the collection of only the perpetrators, and those who may be ordered by the authorities of the persecution of lawyer.
In response to these claims, it is clear from the investigations, the Committee said on Monday that the probe has taken so long to long medical procedures, as well as the fact that the Kratov were both Litvinova and was in hospital for two months in the last year of the unexplained reasons.
In the vicinity of the statue of limitations, Litvinova "was truncated to Medvedev: n changes intended to reduce crime, which causes the criminal responsibility of criminal law. Medvedev proposed changes in response to the criticism of business men in the treatment of jailed, which was largely inspired by the Magnitsky's case.
Researchers have recently again in tax evasion probe against Magnitsky, even if he is dead, saying that it gives to his relatives the opportunity to remove their name. But his family objected, saying it has never asked for such a possibility.
Posted on its website Monday night, a solution to the Russian Supreme Court declined to review the petition questioning the legality of Posthumous tax evasion probe, because he is not a Contracting Party to the Magnitsky's mother. The Constitutional Court shall also determine the legality of the new studies.
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