Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Hermitage Capital Advisor Dies in Jail

Sergei Magnitskey, a tax advisor at the Moscow law firm Firestone Duncan, has died in a Moscow investigative detention facility. He was held without bail since November 2008 and charged in October 2009 for facilitating tax evasion by the firm’s client Hermitage Capital Management, formerly Russia’s largest portfolio investor. (For background, see ABA Journal, 8/13/09, "Russia Claws at the Rule of Law.")
www.vedomosti.ru/newsline/news/2009/11/17/886095

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