20/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Follow up on death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. On 20 March, the leader of the European Parliaments' S&D Group, Hannes Swoboda, condemned the decision of the Russian authorities the day before to close the investigation into the death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, when proceedings against him for tax fraud are still ongoing. Magnitsky died in prison in 2009. Swoboda described Russia's behaviour as shameful in “a case that became a farce a long time...