Prosecutors to check all Magnitsky-related criminal cases
MOSCOW. June 1 (Interfax) - Following the instruction of the Russian president, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office will conduct a massive inspection of all criminal cases related in one way or another to the activities and death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Prosecutor General's Office spokeswoman Marina Gridneva told Interfax.
"Given the high profile, and following the instruction of the Russian president, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has set up a group of prosecutors, which included officers from various directorates, to strengthen and ensure qualified supervision over the process and results of the investigation of the criminal cases probed by the Russian Investigative Committee and the Russian Interior Ministry's Investigative Committee," Gridneva said.