Prosecutors Support Magnitsky’s Accuser

The Prosecutor General’s Office has ruled that a senior police official who kept Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pretrial detention until he died has done nothing wrong. Interior Ministry officer Oleg Silchenko ordered Magnitsky’s arrest in a tax evasion case in late 2008 and repeatedly refused to authorize his release on bail or to transfer him to a civilian hospital. After 11 months in custody, […]