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December 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A Russian court has acquitted the former deputy chief of the prison where lawyer Sergey Magnitsky died. A judge ruled there was not enough evidence Dmitry Kratov was guilty of negligence.
Kratov was the only official facing a trial following the death of Magnitsky who died in a Moscow prison while under investigation for tax evasion and fraud. The prosecutor also asked the court to acquit Kratov.
“I ask you to acquit Kratov for lack of evidence. Kratov didn’t plead guilty. He showed that his activity was performed in accordance with the job description. Kratov did not carry out Magnitsky’s medical examination”, Rossiyskaya newspaper has quoted prosecutor Konstantin Bokov as saying.
The Magnitsky case began in 2007, when British investment fund Hermitage Capital, one of the biggest foreign investors inside Russia, fell victim to a US$230 million fraud. The fund hired corporate lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, whose investigation brought forth names of officials in Russia’s Interior Ministry he believed to be involved in the scam.
Soon after that, the lawyer was arrested on charges of assisting Hermitage Capital to evade tax and was put into a detention facility. Spending a year there, Magnitsky suddenly died in November 2009. An inquiry into his death proved he had been denied crucial medical treatment. His supporters allege the lawyer had been tortured in an attempt to get him to withdraw his accusations.
Magnitsky’s family and associates described the trial as sham, saying authorities failed to prosecute officials responsible.
The lawyer’s death became a rallying point for human rights advocates in Russia and abroad. In particular the US approved the so-called Magnitsky Act, which introduces US visas bans and other sanctions on Russian officials, who the US suspect of human rights abuses, and was signed into law by US President Barack Obama earlier this month. The bill provoked retaliation from Moscow, including a bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/magnitsky-court-death-official-991/
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