Russian investigators have said they may prosecute a dead lawyer who worked for a foreign investment fund, in a bizarre twist to a case that has come to exemplify investors’ fears about Russia’s rule of law.
Investigators said they would proceed with a posthumous trial against Sergei Magnitsky over tax fraud following a judicial precedent set last summer allowing cases to be concluded in spite of the death of the defendant.
The decision comes two years after Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, died in a pre-trial detention centre where he was held for almost a year after accusing the police of complicity in a $230m tax fraud.
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