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Prosecutor asks to sentence Browder to 9 years jail

The prosecutor also asked to terminate the criminal case against auditor of the British foundation Hermitage Capital Management Sergei Magnitsky over his death
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MOSCOW, July 3 (Itar-Tass) - The public prosecutor in his final speech in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow at the trial over the criminal case against auditor of the British foundation Hermitage Capital Management Sergei Magnitsky, who died at the detention centre, and Director General of the foundation, British national William Browder, who are accused of tax evasion to the tune of 522 million roubles, asked the court to find them guilty of the crimes they are charged with.

The public prosecutor asked the court to sentence Browder in absentia to nine years in a general security penitentiary and to terminate the criminal case against Magnitsky over his death.