Moscow's Basmanny District Court on Monday declared legal investigators' refusal to give the DNA of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in police custody, to his mother for a medical examination. Magnitsky's mother wanted investigators to provide her with her late son's DNA to carry out an independent genetic examination to find out the cause of his death as she did not believe the official version. Magnitsky, a former lawyer for Hermitage Capital investment fund, died after almost a year in Moscow's notorious Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in November 2009. He had been arrested on tax evasion charges just days after claiming that police investigators had stolen $230 million from the state. Some of the police offers he had accused of embezzling from the state were responsible for his arrest. On Monday the Russian Investigative Committee accused Magnitsky's doctor at the pre-trail detention center, Larisa Litvinova and former chief medical offer Dmitry Kratov of negligence that leading to the lawyer's death. They may receive up to five years in jail if found guilty. Magnitsky's death caused an international outcry from world human rights organizations and the business community. President Dmitry Medvedev, for whom the Magnitsky case has been seen as a test of his pledge to battle corruption, said earlier that the lawyer's death was "a crime."
GMT 18:06 2018 Tuesday ,09 January
10 migrants dead, dozens missing off Libya coastGMT 22:05 2018 Wednesday ,03 January
US says airstrike kills 2 militants in SomaliaGMT 18:56 2018 Wednesday ,03 January
Philippines prohibits US firm call center from expanding after deadly fireGMT 17:03 2018 Wednesday ,03 January
Severe storm batters western Europe; 1 dead, 15 injuredGMT 16:32 2018 Wednesday ,03 January
Palestinian shot dead in West Bank clashes with Israeli army: ministryGMT 11:49 2018 Wednesday ,03 January
Russian helicopter crashes in Syria, two dead: MoscowGMT 17:22 2017 Thursday ,28 December
10 hurt in Saint Petersburg supermarket bombingGMT 17:49 2017 Wednesday ,27 December
Blast in Saint Petersburg injures four, say officialsMaintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Send your comments
Your comment as a visitor