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The government failed to investigate the accusations, and is still covering up the circumstances of Mr Magnitsky's death.

After Hermitage filed a complaint over the fraud, the lawyer Magnitsky testified that police officers including Col Kuznetsov were involved.

And an investigation by Russia's Presidential Human Rights Council found that Magnitsky was denied treatment and severely beaten.

Magnitsky began to make fun of Stolypin's earnestness.

Some of the circumstances surrounding the $230m tax fraud make Magnitsky's allegations of police corruption striking.

Russia has acquitted the only official charged in the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

Magnitsky had hardly finished his anecdote when another gentleman expressed his readiness to relate something even more amusing.

Speransky listened, laughing beforehand at what Magnitsky was going to say.

An investigation ordered by Mr Medvedev into the death of Magnitsky 11 months ago has gone nowhere; no arrests have been made.

Just as Prince Andrey walked into the room, Magnitsky's words were again drowned in laughter.

Magnitsky's death has aroused strong reactions in the international community.

Magnitsky was later arrested by the same officials he accused fraud.

Mr Magnitsky's death was shocking, but hardly unusual: many people die in pre-trial detention across Russia, and even more in prison.

Magnitsky was jailed pending trial, where he died.