| | Hermitage hired Sergei Magnitsky from the law firm of Firestone Duncan to investigate. Magnitsky was arrested and held in prison without charges until he died in 2009, after 359 days, one day short of the legal maximum that you can be held without being charged in Russia. He accidentally died that day, huh? This sounds so cliche` that you'd even expect it as plot turn in a James Bond movie, or something ...
Then, Putin lifted his finger and ordered the summary execution of the so-called traitors -- by dangling them over a pit of alligators and slowly lowering them into the pit by crane. He laughed maniacally as those he had personally charged with treason were being lowered to their doom. "Soon, I will rule the world! Muwahahahaaaaaaaa!"
Let's hope it's not life imitating fiction.
Ed
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