Originally published by Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
July 1, 2011

MOSCOW – July 1 (Interfax) – Human rights activists intend to name the
officials who may be involved in Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei
Magnitsky’s case, who died in a Moscow detention facility.

The names will be mentioned in the interim report on the Magnitsky case,
which the presidential Human Rights Council plans to pass to President
Dmitry Medvedev on July 5, Kirill Kabanov, the head of the public
organization National Anti-Corruption Committee, told Interfax on Friday.

“We will raise questions about the names of the people who may be
interested in the Magnitsky case,” Kabanov said.

The working group of the presidential Human Rights Council is actively
working with the Russian Investigations Committee, which is investigating
Magnitsky’s death.

“We have come to the following interim conclusion: Unfortunately, it may be
impossible to subject all participants in this trial to criminal liability.
Agencies are covering them. Courts have made many illegal decisions.
Dealing with courts is a big problem,” Kabanov said.

The interim report will not state the final conclusion on the cause of
Magnitsky’s death, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, a member of the presidential human
rights council, a member of the Council’s working group on the Magnitsky
case, and head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, said.

Magnitsky, a lawyer for the investment foundation Hermitage Capital, died
in the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility on November 16, 2009, at the
age of 37. He was charged with tax evasion.

Magnitsky’s death drew a broad public response. The Investigations
Committee opened a criminal case on charges of failure to provide
assistance to a patient and negligence.

According to two forensic evaluations, Magnitsky died of acute heart
insufficiency. The experts confirmed that Magnitsky was suffering from the
illnesses he was diagnosed with earlier, but said those illnesses were not
at an acute stage.

Despite the dismissals in the Federal Service for the Enforcement of
Punishments, human rights activists believe no real investigation into the
causes of Magnitsky’s death was conducted.