Court suspends Magnitsky colleague case

A Moscow court suspended indefinitely on Wednesday the hearing of a tax evasion case against a former colleague of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Ivan Cherkasov is accused of underpaying $73 million in taxes in 2006 as head of the Russian branch of British investment company Hermitage Capital Management. Oleg Silchenko, the investigator who requested Cherkasov’s […]