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April 30 2016, 20:52:28 UTC
Former Russian Finance Minister Kudrin Tries to Explain Why $1 Billion Was Stolen from the Russian Budget in Connection to the Magnitsky Murder on His Watch and he Did Nothing 11 April <...> - In an extraordinary statement issued on his political website, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin explained how it was not his fault that $1 billion was stolen from the Russian treasury on his watch between 2006 and 2010 through a corrupt scheme uncovered by Hermitage Fund’s Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. In his statement referring to the illegal approvals[sic!] of tax refunds for millions of dollars, Mr. Kudrin said: “Employees of the Treasury cannot challenge the appropriateness of such a decision. Neither the leadership of the Treasury, nor, especially, the leadership of the Ministry of Finance interfere in this process.” This statement came in response to a series of 7 public questions to Kudrin from Andrei Illiarionov, an opposition politician<...> “It is remarkable that the man whose responsibility was to protect the finances of the Russian state could say that he shouldn’t interfere when crimes were going on under his nose, in which $1 billion was stolen directly from the Russian treasury,” said a Hermitage Capital representative. http://lawandorderinrussia.org/2012/kudrin-tries-to-explain-why-1-billion-was-stolen-from-the-russian-budget/
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11 April <...> - In an extraordinary statement issued on his political website, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin explained how it was not his fault that $1 billion was stolen from the Russian treasury on his watch between 2006 and 2010 through a corrupt scheme uncovered by Hermitage Fund’s Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
In his statement referring to the illegal approvals[sic!] of tax refunds for millions of dollars, Mr. Kudrin said: “Employees of the Treasury cannot challenge the appropriateness of such a decision. Neither the leadership of the Treasury, nor, especially, the leadership of the Ministry of Finance interfere in this process.”
This statement came in response to a series of 7 public questions to Kudrin from Andrei Illiarionov, an opposition politician<...>
“It is remarkable that the man whose responsibility was to protect the finances of the Russian state could say that he shouldn’t interfere when crimes were going on under his nose, in which $1 billion was stolen directly from the Russian treasury,” said a Hermitage Capital representative.
http://lawandorderinrussia.org/2012/kudrin-tries-to-explain-why-1-billion-was-stolen-from-the-russian-budget/
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