25 May 2016 – The Russian Investigative Committee has rejected William Browder’s criminal complaint against Russian General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika. The complaint asked the Russian authorities to investigate Chaika for making knowingly false accusations of triple homicide against William Browder in a December 2015 letter Chaika published in the Russian newspaper “Kommersant.” In that article, Chaika accused Browder of murdering three Russian citizens.
“Chaika shouldn’t be allowed to abuse his position and make such wild and knowingly false statements against me purely to seek revenge for his false assumption that I was involved in exposing the abuse and corruption of his office,” said William Browder, author of the New-York Times best-seller “Red Notice. How I Became Putin’s No 1 Enemy.“
Chaika’s Kommersant letter also blamed William Browder for financing and backing the YouTubeexpose of corruption and criminality involving Chaika’s sons prepared by Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.
- Ustyugov, an official in the Russian Investigative Committee, issued the rejection to William Browder’s complaint, stating there were “no grounds to register this application as a crime report and conduct a probe into it.”
The Russian Investigative Committee’s official who prepared the refusal was officer Marina Lomonosova, who previously was in charge of investigating the death of Sergei Magnitsky in Russian police custody.
Judge Artur Karpov of Basmanny District Court of Moscow agreed with the Investigative Committee’s inaction, saying “there were no reasons to distrust the documents provided by the criminal prosecution bodies.”
Moscow district city Judge Artur Karpov has previously refused complaints from Sergei Magnitsky’s mother seeking an investigation of her son’s torture and murder in detention. He also sanctioned arrests of Bolotnaya Square protesters and the house arrest of Alexei Navalny.
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