Former colleagues and friends of Sergei Magnitsky have stepped up their campaign against law enforcement officials whom they implicate in the death of the Hermitage Capital lawyer in a Moscow detention center last year.
On Wednesday they released a wide-ranging web site on the case that features material about dubious property amassed by the family of Artyom Kuznetsov, one of the Interior Ministry officials accused of plotting against Hermitage Capital and law firm Firestone Duncan, where Magnitsky worked.
The web site, Russian-untouchables.com, does not identify its authors, saying instead that it was "produced by the friends of Sergei Magnitsky and many others from around the world" who have been moved by his death.
But it includes two professionally produced videos, in English and Russian, in which Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder and Firestone Duncan managing partner Jamison Firestone present their case.
Browder has been based in London since he was refused entry to Russia in 2005. Firestone moved from Moscow to London last December, saying he feared that he might suffer the same fate as Magnitsky.
In the first video, Browder retells the story of how his firm, once the country's biggest foreign investment fund with more than $4 billion in assets, came under attack from corrupt law enforcement officers.
In the other video, titled, "Kuznetsov's Illicit and Sudden Wealth," Firestone presents apparent evidence that the police lieutenant colonel and his family flaunted millions of dollars, which he claims are proceeds from the attack against Hermitage.
Magnitsky was arrested after accusing Kuznetsov and the other Interior Ministry officials of stealing $230 million in government funds, a charge first made by Browder after ministry investigators accused him of evading more than 100 million rubles ($3.25 million) in taxes in 2002.
