Magnitsky case investigation goes on - Investigative Committee
MOSCOW. June 21 (Interfax) - The investigation of the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky goes on, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
"The Dmitry Kratov criminal case was separated from the case of other persons, and the investigation of the latter continues," he said.
Markin did not say which officials and departments might figure in that case.
He said earlier on Thursday that the criminal case of former Butyrka deputy head Kratov had been submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office for endorsement of the bill of indictment.
Kratov is charged with causing death by negligence.
Magnitsky, a lawyer for the investment foundation Hermitage Capital, died in the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility on November 16, 2009 at the age of 37. He was charged with tax evasion. The official cause of death is acute cardiovascular insufficiency.
Magnitsky repeatedly complained of bad health and asked for a checkup. His death drew a broad public response. Human rights defenders accused doctors and law enforcers of his death.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on charges of failure to provide assistance to a patient and negligence.
The Investigative Committee completed in July 2011 the additional medical examination and brought charges against the prison doctor Dmitry Kratov and Butyrka laboratory worker L. Litvinova (both were accused by causing death by negligence).
Detectives said that Magnitsky was not given timely and adequate treatment and died of two diseases: dysmetabolic cardiomyopathy linked with diabetes and chronic hepatitis.
The Butyrka doctors are the only defendants in the Magnitsky case so far. Hermitage Capital said on April 9, 2012, that the Investigative Committee dropped the charges against Litvinova by instruction. Hermitage Capital quoted an extract from the detective's resolution, which described the crime of Litvinova as "a minor case of culpable negligence."
The doctor's case was separated in November 2011. Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin said in late November that the doctors' case was complete.
The investigation of the main case continues.