The Russian Investigative Committee has closed the case of Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer killed in November 2009, the committee’s website reports.
Medical experts said that the lawyer died of congestive heart failure and cerebral edema. He was also suffering from diabetes and hepatitis.
Larisa Litvinova, a doctor of Butyrka, and Dmitry Kratov, her deputy chief, were examining the body of Magnitsky after his death. They were proven innocent. The Interior Ministry filed charges against Magnitsky in February 2013, claiming that he was a fraudster attempting to buy Gazprom shares using William Browder’s Hermitage Capital Management.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the lawyer had died of heart problems, not tortures. Magnitsky’s relatives are confident that the man was killed for his professional work.
