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The Hermitage Saga Turns Tragic As Fund Lawyer Dies In Jail
The saga of Hermitage Capital, whose clip highlighting its recent plight we posted previously, has just taken a turn for the sad and surreal. The WSJ reports that 37 year old Sergei Magnitsky, Hermitage's lawyer has died in custody. As a reminder Sergei was arrested in November of 2008: "Sergei Magnitsky, a legal and accounting adviser for Moscow-based
law firm Firestone Duncan, was detained Monday [November 24th] after a raid on his home
and police issued a formal warrant for his arrest two days later, said
Bill Browder, chief executive officer of Hermitage Capital Management."
Reports the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old partner at Moscow firm Firestone
Duncan, was jailed nearly a year ago on charges of tax evasion related
to his work for Hermitage. At a court hearing on extending his
detention in September, he complained that he had been denied medical
treatment for weeks for serious stomach pancreatic illnesses that he
hadn't suffered from before his imprisonment. He also complained of
inhumane conditions -- including the absence of toilet, hot water and
windows -- at the Butyrskaya jail where he was then being held.
"They held him for 11 months, asking him to fabricate testimony
against Hermitage," said Jamison Firestone, managing partner of
Firestone Duncan. "The more he refused, the worse his conditions
became."
If convicted of tax fraud, Mr. Magnitsky would have faced up to six
years in prison. Russian officials have denied pressuring Mr. Magnitsky
for testimony.
Irina Dudukina, spokeswoman for the Investigative Committee of Russia's Interior Ministry said Tuesday, stated more information would be forthcoming shortly. In other news, emerging markets are, once again, all the rage. For those who can't wait to see the opportunity cost of the investment climate in Russia, here is a snapshot of the prison which was Mr. Magnitsky's final resting place.
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It is getting seriously thick in here, isn't it?
It is getting seriously thick in here, isn't it?
Convenient......Spares the state the cost of a trial(sic)and imprisonment
Mr. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old partner at Moscow firm Firestone Duncan.....Makes sense to me.....What's the average age of a Russian citizen now (if they don't tow the line)??
It's "toe the line". See Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946) (at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm) or the Eggcorn database at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/index.php?p=72.
"Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer." --Orwell
BAH!
He's dead, it's a mute point!
We Like emerging market ETF's !!!!!
RSA, FXP, lets buy globally- because they really know how to pump it up!
its a russian mafia kind of thing, doncha know....
only in russia. ok probably not.
Jesus Christ. What a fucking mafia country.
So the prison is a converted dairy farm? Having to share a pen with a cow would be OK until milking time...
Depends who's doing the milking. Have you seen some of the blondes in Moscow?
I wonder if we could ship to our beloved assorted crooks & characters like Lord Blankfein & Lord Dimon for some R&R or let's say Rendition with a smile. Let's see if they make them talk about where they did put the money. The money that they stole from future generations.
See boys. Wall Street douches think they are the masters of the universe. But they are squat once they are put away in some hell hole. Because the Master of the Universe will aleays be the one the biggest gun. At this moement in time & place. Money is able the gun, but is not always true. As you can see from Putin's boys.
Just like Wall Street douches will regret the day. That the US after being weakened so much by this treasonables vamoire squids will not have the biggest gun to protect Wall Street's racket & they will be bitch slapped by the guy with the guns. Just like the Australian Mining Co executives learned when they were locked up in China.
hear hear Anonymous
ship the crooks out to a country that isnt afraid of an oligarch or two.
"where's your signature?..... sign the contract now.....now give me my pen back" Putin to Deripaska
imagine the same conversation between BO and blankenstein. oh poor, abused america
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlsbB33QSc
Why did you use a hundred years old photo Tyler ?
No different from the WA N TERA
Un-fucking-believable.
The FBI should borrow some of these Russians to investigate Blankfein a little more closely.
Indeed, much more effective interrogation techniques (we only use ours on "enemy combatants")
Butyrskaya Inn the new hot address for many Wall Street Bankers....
A glimpse of our future "Health Care" System. Don't buy it; go to jail. Want treatment; die like a rat.
Back in the USSR boys. Love that song.
"corporate raid" takes on a whole new meaning in russia.
from hermitage capital:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6ljV-WfRw
and you see, that is why lady gaga had no choice but to torch the russian mobster for selling her in to sex slavery. it was a bad romance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso
What did you expect? We are a country of evil where the puss of the world flows in streams, and tax evaders here die in jail rather than the kinder solution that UBS had to provide under fire from US Government.
Seriously dude, what more to expect from the barbarians from the east, etc etc?
Lawyer dies in jail... Made my day.
1,500 lawyers die from poisoning at an ABA convention. Makes my month.
Why is Browder's fund being subjected to this treatment?
I'm skeptical that there isn't more to this story that we are not hearing.
this is not even funny. what a fucked up country. seriously. whatever sleazy shit this guy might have done pales in comparison to the misery he must have endured in this mini-gulag
spare the lawyer jokes. this is disgusting. i wont sleep tonight imagining some of the shit this dude went through
ChickenTeriyakiBoy
have you not heard of rendition? a practice of deporting suspected terrorists to countries where torture is legal or acceptable. its practiced by the US govt, signed into law under Reagan and greatly extended by the Patriotic Act (sic)
i suggest that during your sleepless night you write to your local politicians asking for their position on this matter rather than bathing yourself in self serving pity.
follow your fav rendition flights here
http://flightaware.com/
This story, the way it is presented, does not make any sense.
Was Magnitsky the main target of this investigation? - No, Browder was. Did the investigators want Magnitsky dead? - No, they wanted him convicted in order to try and get Browder extradited to Russia. Now they will never be able to convict Magnitsky, and, furthermore, Browder's extradition has become virtually impossible, because Russian prisons yet another time proved to be too dangerous.
It seems as the one who benefited most from the poor guy's death is Browder.