A permanent exhibition at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Friedrichstrasse 43-45; mauermuseum.de) in Berlin exposes a modern-day saga of governmental corruption, coercion and torture.
The Sergei Magnitsky case revealed
His crime? Uncovering a vast conspiracy that sought to rob the Russian state and its citizens of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds, allegedly executed by police officers and governmental officials.
William Browder, the chief executive of Hermitage Capital and the single largest foreign investor in Russiaa t the end of the ´80´s, hired Magnitsky to investigate seemingly random police raids on three of his companies.
Magnitsky found what behind : egregious abuses of power that continue today Russia
He presented his findings in a sworn testimony to the Russian intelligence community. He was immediately incarcerated, beaten and denied medical…they let him to dead.
Art can be politic…art is politic…art is the best way to heal our wounds… the Sergei Magnitsky exhibition reminds that civil liberty should never be taken for granted.
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