Alekper and Sarkhan Ismailov were steering a $1.9 million Bugatti Veyron and a $670,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren along Lake Geneva late Thursday when a third participant crashed a Lamborghini Murcielago into a Volkswagen, leaving an elderly German badly injured.

Hours later, the Investigative Commitee opens a criminal case over negligence and prison officials’ failure to provide medical aid to the ailing lawyer during his imprisonment.

For all intents and purposes, Magnitsky was tortured to death to extract testimony against Browder.

The three were arrested Monday night and were cooperating with investigators, the Investigative Committee said Tuesday in a statement.

It would appear that the tax officials are demanding the company’s liquidation because in 2008 the value of its net assets fell below the minimum size of the company’s charter capital.

The spending is 5.4 percent more than the world’s largest gas producer is investing this year, further evidence of its hopes for a market recovery.

In denying Magnitsky medical treatment, law enforcement officials used the same methods as the NKVD.

Fyodorov had learned to stay away from two things: the Russian state and politics.

Two people died when a chain of ammunition explosions ripped through the Navy arsenal in Ulyanovsk, 800 kilometers east of Moscow on Nov. 13.

Each partner will own 50 percent in the two joint ventures, which will operate alongside KamAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan.