The results of the investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will be made public in the near future, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
"The investigation has made significant progress," he said, adding the circumstances and the actual causes of Magnitsky's death "will be known soon."
Medvedev said Russia will back any investigative action within the bounds of the law and that "all persons involved in the crime, both in Russia and abroad, must be identified."
Magnitsky died aged 37 in a Moscow pre-trial detention facility in 2009 after being refused medical treatment for pancreatitis.
He had been detained as part of an investigation into embezzlement involving Hermitage Capital investment, for whom he was working.
Magnitsky claimed he had been falsely imprisoned by the same officials in the Interior Ministry who he had accused of embezzlement.
SKOLKOVO (Moscow Region), May 18 (RIA Novosti)
