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Whatever happened to the Magnitsky money?

MOSCOW — Sergei Magnitsky’s brutal death in a Moscow prison in 2009 has come to symbolize the confluence of corruption, repression and human rights abuse that’s flowered under Vladimir Putin. The lawyer's imprisonment and torture have brought the Kremlin condemnation from around the world. But one key part of the scandal remains unsolved: What happened to the $230 million Magnitsky claimed bureaucrats had embezzled?
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