Magnitsky Family Lawyer Thrown off Top Floor Apartment in Moscow, Now in Critical Condition
March 21, 2017
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Magnitsky Family Lawyer Thrown off Top Floor Apartment in Moscow, Now in Critical Condition
21 March 2017 – Russian lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov, who represents Sergei Magnitsky’s family, has been thrown from the top floor of his apartment building earlier today and is currently hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Botkin hospital in Moscow with severe head injuries.
Nikolia Gorokhov is a key witness in the US Government’s case against Prevezon Holdings, a Cyprus company owned by Denis Katsyv, son of senior Russian Government official Petr Katsyv. The trial is scheduled to begin in the Federal court in New York on May 15th 2017. The trial is in relation to alleged money laundering by Prevezon of proceeds of US$230 million fraud that Sergei Magnitsky uncovered and was killed for exposing in 2009 at the
age of 37.
Continued: http://lawandorderinrussia.org/2017/magnitsky-family-lawyer-thrown-out-of-fourth-floor-apartment-in-moscow-now-in-critical-condition/
The lawyer of a whistleblower in Russia who was killed previously.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39347461
Magnitsky lawyer injured after 'falling' from building near Moscow
The story above from Law and Order in Russia says 'thrown' which probably happened, most other stories have the more ambiguous and less controversial "falling".
