We won. That was the claim from all parties after a civil case involving allegations of Russian money laundering ended this month. Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that the case had settled just before the trial was set to begin. The case was initially brought in 2013….
Nikolai Gorokhov, the lawyer representing tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s family, is recovering from serious injuries after falling out of a window in his Moscow apartment building. Gorokhov fell just one day before he was scheduled to appear in a Moscow court.
A Moscow court has ruled Hermitage Capital Management founder William Browder and his tax advisor and lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, guilty of tax fraud. Magnitsky was found guilty posthumously; he died in prison nearly four years ago. Browder was found guilty in absentia after being forced from the country in 2006.