Lawyer for Family of Sergei Magnitsky, Dead Russian Whistle-Blower, Is Seriously Injured
By ANDREW HIGGINSMARCH 21, 2017
MOSCOW — A lawyer representing the family of Sergei L. Magnitsky, a Russian auditor
and lawyer who died in prison in 2009 after uncovering a $230 million fraud targeting an American-born financier, suffered severe head injuries on Tuesday after plunging from his Moscow apartment building.
The financier, William F. Browder, said Mr. Gorokhov was to appear in a Moscow court on Wednesday to appeal on behalf of Mr.
Magnitsky’s mother for an investigation into new evidence relating to the fraud scheme first exposed by Mr. Magnitsky.
The Russian authorities have accused Mr. Browder, a British citizen who now lives in London, of orchestrating the fraud
that he and Mr. Magnitsky attributed to criminals working in collusion with law enforcement authorities.
Mr. Magnitsky, who was jailed in Moscow after speaking out about the fraud, died in 2009 after being denied essential medical care.
Browder said that Basically, there is a trail of dead and seriously injured people leading from the Magnitsky case,