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mo4ch:>Magnitsky ‘highly likely’ killed on Bill Browder’s orders, poisoned by toxic chemicals – Moscow | Mo4ch News

Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky may have been poisoned and his former employer, UK financier Bill Browder, was possibly behind the murder, prosecutors have found. Now, Moscow will place Browder on the international wanted list.The version about Magnitsky's poisoning in the interests of a US-born investor is also confirmed by journalist Oleg Lurie, who was kept in jail with him, Russian prosecutors revealed on Monday. Back in 2009, Lurie claimed citing Magnitsky that lawyers working for his employer, Browder, tried to make him sign false documents on theft from Russian budget.Browder, a US-born British financier, made a fortune in Russia during the country’s chaotic transition to market economy. His Hermitage Capital Management foundation was a leading foreign investing entity in late 1990s and early 2000s.In 2007, the foundation was targeted with a probe into possible large-scale embezzling of Russian taxpayer money. Magnitsky, who worked for Browder and had knowledge of his firms…