Russia finds dead lawyer Magnitsky guilty in posthumous trial
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A Moscow court found the late investment fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion on Thursday in Russia's first posthumous trial, a verdict that will further undermine President Vladimir Putin's reputation in the West.
The court also convicted Magnitsky's former client William Browder, a Briton who has spearheaded an international campaign to expose corruption and punish Russian officials he blames for Magnitsky's death in a Moscow jail while awaiting trial in 2009. Browder, tried in absentia, was sentenced to nine years in prison. (Reuters)
