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In a high-profile international fraud case, a Russian dies under unknown circumstances. Now the federal prosecutor wants to close the case and returns millions to the suspect.
A portrait of Sergei Magnitsky held by his mother. Those responsible for tax fraud and the violent death of the Russian auditor no longer have to fear a Swiss investigation.
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko (AP)
Serge died on November 16, 2009I Magnitsky in a Moscow prison. The cause of death is not yet clear. The 37-JThe elderly were denied medical assistance and may have been beaten to death. Magnitsky was a certified public accountant who had discovered suspicions of tax fraud inIIn criminal network the Russian state deprived 230 million dollars and – through mailbox companies – auf should have transferred bank accounts in the west. Among other things, also in bank accounts in Switzerland.
But Magnitski’s investigations apparently disturbed the highest circles of politics and the executive branch: he himself was arrested and died shortly before the end of his year in pre-trial detention.
