Russia to Try Browder With Dead Hermitage Lawyer for Tax Evasion
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Russia plans to try William Browder, head of London-based Hermitage Capital Management Ltd., for tax evasion, along with Sergei Magnitsky, the fund’s lawyer who died in custody in 2009, RIA Novosti said.
“Magnitsky and Browder are both accused of severe crimes, which deprived the state of several hundred million rubles,” Alexander Yagodin, a senior Interior Ministry official, said in an interview with RIA Novosti, published today on the state-controlled news service’s website. Calls by Bloomberg to the ministry’s investigative branch weren’t answered today.