French prosecutors are set to unveil money laundering charges against Dimitry Klyuev, an alleged mastermind of the Magnitsky Affair, the Russian tax fraud that triggered a global anticorruption movement, according to court documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Klyuev, who is believed to live in Russia, will be tried in absentia in a Paris criminal court in a daylong procedure set for March 30, the same day the charges are unsealed.
ICIJ has obtained both the charging document, filed secretly last summer, and the notice of hearing for the trial.
The documents show that prosecutors last summer secretly charged Klyuev, 58, with “aggravated money laundering” in connection to his role in the Magnitisky case, a $230-million fraudulent tax refund scheme dating to 2007.
The affair is named after Sergey Magnitsky, a Russian tax advisor working for…
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