Justice For Sergei

The death in prison of Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian lawyer, remains one of the darkest scandals in the blotchy history of Russia’s criminal justice system. One year on, this HD documentary brings the full details of his tragic story to light. “Conditions were terrible. In one of the cells the toilet broke and flooded the room with sewage. A mentally ill person would sleep with the prisoners some nights.” These were the conditions in which Sergei lived out his last days in Butyrka Prison in Moscow. After making 450 official complaints about his treatment, and suffering the constant stabbing pains of Pancreatitis, his investigator ‘Silchenko’ tightens the screws – issuing a file stating that Sergei had already been medically treated. “There is a clear feeling he had been put in such conditions, which could bring him to death”, says the independent watchdog who investigated Sergei’s case. “This is my country and I don’t want such things to happen here. Such lawlessness- I will fight it.” Sergei’s story begins with twenty plain-clothes government officials storming the offices of three Hermitage Fund companies and seizing hundreds of official documents. Investigating the incident, company lawyer Sergei discovered the largest tax fraud in Russian history; 0 million of tax refund – the exact amount the Hermitage Fund companies had paid in taxes the year before – had turned up in the bank accounts of the government officials. When the officials started threatening the …
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