New York (HedgeCo.net) – Commenting on the death of hedge fund Hermitage Capital’s anti-corruption lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy,\u00a0 the U.K. Prime Minister said he was “Deeply concerned to hear of the death,” and, “I welcome the Russian undertaking that there will be a full investigation,” the Daily Telegraph reported this morning.<\/p>\n
Magnitskiy died on\u00a0November 16\u00a0in a detention centre in Moscow. The US-born, British naturalised lawyer was arrested in 2008 after accusing senior officers in the Interior Ministry of taking part in a $230 million state-sponsored scam, leading to the theft of companies owned by hedge funds Hermitage and HSBC. Hermitage has filed law suits and sent letters to Russian anti-corruption authorities, naming top-ranked officials and their role in the alleged tax scam.<\/p>\n
The 37 year old father of two was held in Moscow\u2019s Matrosskaya Tishina detention center for almost a year. “Sergey Magnitskiy was refused bail and kept in detention for a year without trial,” Hermitage said in a statement. “He was denied the ability to see his mother and his wife and speak to his children for the entire time of his detention.”<\/p>\n
The U.K. Government has also contacted senior Russian politicians regarding the investigation, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
Alex Akesson New York (HedgeCo.net) – Commenting on the death of hedge fund Hermitage Capital’s anti-corruption lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy,\u00a0 the U.K. Prime Minister said he was “Deeply concerned to hear of the death,” and, “I welcome the Russian undertaking that there will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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