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Battle Over Sergei Magnitsky’s Death Escalates

The battle over the death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky reached new heights this week, after former Magnitsky’s employer Jamison Firestone released another video on YouTube, exposing one of the prosecutors involved in the case.

According to the video and actual evidence published on the site http://russian-untouchables.com, the prosecutor, Pavel Karpov, had spent over $1.5 million on cars, real estate and travel in a year following the arrest of Sergei Magnitsky.

In a statement to Interfax news agency, Pavel Karpov said that Firestone and William Browder are trying to conceal their own criminal activity by directing media attention away from their actions. Karpov has not commented on the facts contained in the video.

Watch the video on Russia!’s website.

More info: http://russian-untouchables.com


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