Moscow plans to put dead lawyer on trial

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Series Details 8.2.12
Publication Date 08/02/2012
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Russian investigators said in February 2012 that they may prosecute a dead lawyer who worked for a foreign investment fund in the latest bizarre twist to a case that has come to exemplify investor fears about Russia’s rule of law.

Hermitage Capital and the Magnitsky family, which have launched a two-year campaign against Russia’s interior ministry, said they had little sense of what a trial of a deceased man would look like or how they planned to proceed.

They said investigators had indicated they might close the case if Magnitsky’s family and Hermitage dropped their own legal actions against the Russian authorities.

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