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Kremlin Orders Probe of Lawyer’s Death in Jail

Russian Admiral Dmitry Medvedev ordered on Tuesday an analysis into the abrupt afterlife of a confined disinterestedness armamentarium advocate who was a arch attestant in a tax artifice battle.Sergei Magnitsky, 37, who brash advance armamentarium Hermitage Capital Management, died on Nov. 16 in a Moscow bastille from what prosecutors said was affection failure.The admiral ordered Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika and Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov to investigate the affairs of Magnitsky's death," Medvedev's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told reporters.Medvedev had additionally told admiral to analysis the affection of medical casework for those in aegis and to analysis the convenance of detaining bodies awaiting analysis for bread-and-butter crimes, she said while the admiral was visiting Ulyanovsk, about 800 km (500 miles) southeast of Moscow.Hermitage Capital Management, already one of Russia's better disinterestedness funds, is at the affection of a row over tax artifice which the fund's co-founder Bill Browder says is a analysis case for Russia's advance climate.Browder, who already hailed the Kremlin for introducing reforms that were allowance investors, was banned access to Russia in 2005 on civic aegis area that accept never been defined in public.