Magnitsky lawyer injured after 'falling' from building near Moscow

A legal counselor for the group of Sergei Magnitsky, the legal advisor whose demise in 2009 started an emergency amongst Russia and the West, has been gravely harmed.

Russian media say Nikolai Gorokhov tumbled from the fourth floor when a rope snapped as he and others attempted to lift a shower into his home close Moscow.

He was traveled to healing center by helicopter, a medicinal source was cited as saying.

Be that as it may, British specialist Bill Browder, for whom Mr Magnitsky worked, said he had been "tossed".

He didn't give a hotspot for his assertion.

As indicated by a public statement discharged by a site connected to Mr Browder, Law and Order in Russia, Mr Gorokhov was expected to show up in an interests court in Moscow on Wednesday to challenge its refusal to research affirmations of sorted out wrongdoing.

Mr Magnitsky kicked the bucket in jail subsequent to uncovering affirmed misrepresentation by state authorities.

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The episode including Mr Gorokhov happened in the town of Troitsk, south-west of Moscow. Russian media say a few laborers were helping the legal counselor at the time.