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Russia was guilty of human rights violations that contributed to the death in a Moscow prison of Sergei Magnitsky, an ally of Kremlin critic Bill Browder, a European court ruled in a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian officials deprived Magnitsky of “important†medical care, effectively putting his life in danger, the Strasbourg, France-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled. The ECHR has limited powers and awarded his family a token $38,000.
Browder, who ran one of the largest foreign funds investing in Russia in the 1990s, has
alleged for years that $230 million was stolen from the Russian government by corrupt officials and that his tax lawyer, Magnitsky, was jailed while trying to expose the fraud. Magnitsky died at age of 37 in 2009.