Sergei Magnitsky was a 37 year-old tax lawyer and auditor who worked for the Moscow legal and audit firm, Firestone Duncan. He was married and a father of two. Sergei was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1972, and emigrated with his family at the age of 9 to Southern Russia. As a child Sergei loved to read. On family vacations, while the rest of the family and friends would be splashing in the sea, Sergei would sit under a tree with a book. His studiousness was quickly recognized and at the age of 15, he won the Republican Physics and Mathematics Olympiad. When he was 18, he moved to Moscow and attended the prestigious Plekhanov Institute.
As President Putin bungles his country’s response to the current coronavirus, and tries wheedling his population into granting him another 16 years of unquestioned power, here’s the bio of a real Russian patriot: Sergei Magnitsky. Unlike the Russian president, Magnitsky knew the difference between right and wrong, which ultimately cost his life. Read this moving biography of the accountant and lawyer, who discovered an unbelievable tax fraud scheme and dared to name the perpetrators. The Magnitsky Act aims to punish those responsible for the false arrest, torture, and murder of Sergei Magnitsky, as well as punishing human rights abusers worldwide.