Translated Excerpt From the Petition by Sergey Magnitsky to Investigator Silchenko of the Russian

Interior Ministry. 11 September 2009

My criminal persecution has been ordered, to serve as a retribution. The investigation of this case is
being conducted in gross violation of the law. I repeatedly demonstrated the incriminating evidence that
the investigative group members were involved in the falsification of evidence and documents
characterising me. My defense lawyers and I requested to disqualify the investigators who violated the
law. The acts committed by the investigative officers, who abused the law, were repeatedly appealed in
the appropriate petitions filed with the higher –ranking officers and with the court.

My position is obviously irritating for the investigators. It is impossible to justify the charges brought
against me, as I assert again that I did not commit any offenses, and the documents collected by the
investigators only prove my innocence. The expert reports, fabricated by interested experts from the
Interior Ministry departments, contain false evidence and conclusions invented to please the
investigators. If this case is ever heard in court, these experts will simply be unable to justify their
conclusions during cross-examination by the defense.

Realizing the invalidity of their claims, the investigators arranged for physical and psychological
pressure to be exerted upon me in order to suppress my will and to force me to make accusations against
myself and other persons. In particular, the investigators repeatedly proposed that I testify against
William Browder in exchange for a sentence to be suspended during the trial and freedom. Every time,
when I repeatedly rejected these propositions by the investigators pushing me to commit such a base act,
the conditions of my detention become worse and worse…

"Investigators have persecuted me for my refusal to testify falsely against myself and others under Case
153123. The administration of detention centres has assisted the investigators to organise my persecution
by creating intolerable conditions for me in their facilities."

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