Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky was a Ukrainian-born Russian tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian government officials while representing client Hermitage Capital Management.
25 Facts About Sergei Magnitsky
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Sergei Magnitsky was arrested and eventually died in prison seven days before the expiration of the one-year term during which he could be legally held without trial.
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In total, Sergei Magnitsky served 358 days in Moscow's Butyrka prison.
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Sergei Magnitsky developed gall stones, pancreatitis, and a blocked gall bladder, and was denied medical care.
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The United States Congress and President Barack Obama enacted the Sergei Magnitsky Act at the end of 2012, barring those Russian officials believed to be involved in Sergei Magnitsky's death from entering the United States or using its banking system.
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In early January 2013, the Financial Times wrote that "the Sergei Magnitsky case is egregious, well documented and encapsulates the darker side of Putinism".
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Sergei Magnitsky was an auditor at the Moscow law firm Firestone Duncan, working for its owner, Jamison Firestone.
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Sergei Magnitsky worked with Firestone Duncan client Hermitage Capital Management, an investment advisory firm accused of tax evasion and tax fraud by the Russian Interior Ministry.
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Sergei Magnitsky claimed police had accused Hermitage of tax evasion solely to justify the police raids, so they could take the materials needed to hijack the Hermitage companies and effect the tax refund fraud.
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Sergei Magnitsky's testimony implicated police, the judiciary, tax officials, bankers, and the Russian mafia.
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Sergei Magnitsky was arrested and imprisoned at the Butyrka prison in Moscow in November 2008 after being accused of colluding with Hermitage.
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Sergei Magnitsky was found dead in his cell a little over two hours later.
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Journalist Owen Matthews described Sergei Magnitsky's suffering in Moscow's Butyrka prison:.
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When Sergei Magnitsky refused, he was moved to more and more horrible sections of the prison, and ultimately denied the medical treatment which could have saved his life.
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Sergei Magnitsky's death is believed to be linked to the firing of Major-General Anatoli Mikhalkin, formerly the head of the Moscow division of the tax crimes department of the Interior Ministry.
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Mikhalkin was among those accused by Sergei Magnitsky of taking part in fraud.
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In November 2010, Sergei Magnitsky was given a posthumous award from Transparency International for integrity.
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In July 2011, Russia's Investigate Committee initially acknowledged that Sergei Magnitsky died because prison authorities restricted medical care for him.
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However, investigators looking into the death of Magnitsky cleared Oleg F Silchenko, who oversaw the investigation of Magnitsky, of any wrongdoing.
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The court found Browder, Sergei Magnitsky's onetime client and a US-born British investor, guilty of evading some $17 million in taxes.
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In October 2010, US Senator John McCain co-sponsored the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Act, which would forbid entry to the US to 60 individuals named in court documents related to the Magnitsky case.
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On 1 October 2015, Sergei Magnitsky was posthumously awarded 'Honourable Mention' at the Allard Prize for International Integrity ceremony.
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Sergei Magnitsky always strived to live his life in the best possible way, with honesty and integrity.
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Sergei Magnitsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1972, and emigrated to Southern Russia with his family at age 9.
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Sergei Magnitsky later married Natalya Zharikova, a lawyer, whom he met in high school.