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The Magnitsky Act is directed by the Russian Andrei Nekrasov and produced by the renowned Norwegian company Piraya Film. The film addresses the question of what really happened when lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in prison in 2009. He was a whistleblower who had discovered a massive tax fraud of over 1,8 billion Norwegian kroner committed by people in the Russian authorities, and who died in prison because someone feared his testimony? Or was Magnitsky himself one of those behind a gigantic evasion under the auspices of the American investor Bill Browder, and died of natural causes in prison? A good part of the answers can be found in the documents Ny Tid has checked.
Award winning producers. The production company Piraya Film co-produced the critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated documentary T and the sequel The Look of Silence, who also received an Oscar nomination. The company has also been noted for having produced and written quality films that Gulabi Gang, and has won numerous international prestigious awards for his work. The expectations of the disclosures that were announced in the film The Magnitsky Act were high. The review of a number of documents in the investigation of Magnitsky's death and the testimonies that followed are in direct contrast to the film's message – that Magnitsky died of natural causes, and that he did not prosecute and testify against police officers in the Russian tax authorities.
Ny Tid has had access to both the autopsy report and an analysis of it, which was carried out by the Russian authorities' own forensic panel of experts in 2011. The report states that Magnitsky was subjected to violence both in the time before the death and in the time shortly before he died in November 2009. It is further stated that he had clear bruises around his hands, injuries to his fingers and marks that corresponded to blows from, for example, batons. The report also states that he did not receive the necessary examinations or treatment for diabetes, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and pain in the heart region that radiated to his back.
Dead from lack of treatment. Forensic doctors said he died of heart failure as a result of not receiving the necessary medical treatment in prison. The report states, among other things:
"SLM's illnesses were not adequately treated, which contributed to the causes of his death."
"Thus, the lack of medical assistance to SL Magnitsky was considered to be directly related to the cause of the outcome, that the patient died." So it is said on white that the lawyer was exposed to violence and that he did not receive the necessary health care for serious conditions such as diabetes , hepatitis and severe heart pain.
This is in line with what Magnitsky wrote in a letter from prison: "I do not get medical attention." Ny Tid has heard an audio recording from a court hearing with the lawyer, where he tells about the conditions in the cell:
"There is a flood of sewage in my cell, and there was sewage on the floor for a day and a half. Despite the sewage that was on the floor, I was not moved to another cell. ”The presentation in Nekrasov's film is in direct contrast to the official Russian forensic assessment, and in addition to what Magnitsky himself told.
Magnitsky had obvious bruises around his hands, injuries to his fingers and marks that corresponded to blows from, for example, baton.
Contrary to official review. Russia has an official human rights council that reports directly to the president. In July 2011, the council issued an official report on Magnitsky's arrest and death. The report was delivered to then President Dmitry Medvedev. The report's conclusions are also in direct contrast to Nekrasov's film. The report concludes that Magnitsky was likely beaten and mistreated to make him change his mind, and that prison officials had instructed doctors not to treat him.
The report concludes that one of the investigators who accused Magnitsky of neglecting money also deliberately delayed medical assistance to Magnitsky:
"Magnitsky's condition became critical three days after his chronic illness progressed. Transport to the Matrosskaya Tishina Prison Hospital was delayed by six hours, in coordination with investigator Silesia. »Furthermore, the conclusion is:
"The prison conditions and circumstances surrounding Magnitsky's death have no relation to the tax fraud."
"The result was that Magnitsky was totally denied medical help before his death. In addition, there are grounds for suspecting that his death was caused by blows to Magnitsky: His family documented broken knuckles and bruises on his body. In addition, there is no medical description of the last hours of his life, according to the Moscow Oversight Commission. "The report also describes how Magnitsky, before being investigated and operated, was transferred to another prison – allegedly for maintenance work. This meant that he did not receive medical attention, and the Commission believes the intention was to prevent him from being treated.
Name the investigators. Another thing that also goes directly against what Nekrasov's film presents is what Magnitsky testified about and who he accused. The whole core of the case is who ran away with NOK 1,8 billion. Corrupt police investigators who would cover their tracks with false accusations against Magnitsky and his employer Bill Browder? Or Magnitsky and Browder themselves? The film argues that lawyer Magnitsky was neither a whistleblower nor an accuser of police investigators for stealing or participating in the embezzlement. The police investigators in question are Kuznetsov and Karpov. When Ny Tid investigates police interrogations and statements Magnitsky wrote to the trial against him, information emerges that does not support the message in the film. Magnitsky wrote in a statement in connection with the trial: "As I see it, Kuznetsov and other police officers who worked on behalf of Kuznetsov may be involved in the theft of Rilend, Mahaon and Parfenion (companies owned by Browder, editor's note), and the subsequent theft of 5,4 billion rubles from the state budget as described above. "
He further wrote about the police investigators: "They were extremely interested in suppressing activities I did to help my client with the investigation of the case and the offenses, and that was the reason for the criminal investigation against me, started by investigator Silchenko." Another statement from Magnitsky on the imprisonment and investigation states: "I am sure that they have deliberately created such intolerable conditions for me with the knowledge of the investigators. I'm sure the only possible way I can stop all this ridicule and ridicule is to agree with the false accusations and give false explanations about myself and others. I do not trust the investigators. I think all the members of the investigation team are working on behalf of criminals. " In the police interrogation from June 2008, he explains how investigators Karpov and Kuznetsov seized documents and stamps from the companies Browder owned. Later, the same documents and stamps were used to re-register the companies to new owners, without Browder knowing about it. The documents Ny Tid has seen show that Magnitsky both directly and indirectly made accusations against the police investigators Karpov and Kuznetsov.
The cop's family got rich. Friends and supporters of Magnitsky have created since www.russian-untouchables.com. A review of this site shows that shortly after Magnitsky's death and the $ 1,8 billion disappeared, the family members of investigator Kuznetsov were afforded the opportunity to buy luxury apartments and luxury cars for more than NOK 24 million. This despite the fact that the cop's mother in a loan document has declared that their family has an income of NOK 370 a year. Kuznetsov has an annual salary of NOK 000.
The burial journalists in the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have examined a number of documents following the Panama revelations. The traces they have found indicate that the money that disappeared from Russia has taken the road through Moldova and radiation company and into the accounts of a professional cello player and Putin friend, Sergei Roldugin. Roldugin, for its part, claims that the money came from donations from businessmen who wanted to sponsor expensive instruments.
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