I’ve been getting a real kick out of this “Russian Untouchables” video series put out by Sergei Magnitsky’s legal team – not so much on the facts of the case, which most people around here are already familiar with, but rather the amusing details of what the alleged corrupt bureaucrats deemed to spend their stolen millions on (they really love flashy cars and luxury real estate).  But somebody in the procuracy did not like this video quite as much as I did.  In fact, our translator has sent over a recent original translation from RBK Daily from about a week ago relating to a defamation suit filed by Karpov against Browder … but it seems that the lawsuit wasn’t so much his own personal idea as was imposed from above. 

A counter-strike against the reputation

The law-enforcement system is attempting to whitewash itself in the «Magnitsky affair»

The decision of investigator Pavel Karpov, famous from the scandalous «Magnitsky affair», to accuse the head of the British investfund Hermitage, William Browder, of false denunciation and slander may have been adopted at the direction of the Kremlin. As RBK daily’s sources familiar with the details of the case assert, in the presidential administration they are dissatisfied with the negative image of the Russian law-enforcement organs and have decided to deliver a PR counter-strike.