We have the same question. There's an assumption you're making in that question, which is that the people who are running the country are acting in the national interest.
If you change that assumption just slightly and say that the people who are running the country are kleptocrats and are benefiting from this particular scam or many scams like it, that changes the assumption you make about the answer to the question. Let's just say that there are senior ministers in the government who are benefiting from this and who also have the ability to award state honours and also the ability to arrest a young man who exposed the crime. Then it's entirely logical. If they are the crooks who are doing the crime, they then have every power to cover up the crime and to do that.
What the Sergei Magnitsky story did, probably better than any other story in Russia because the details are so clear, is put the bare face of Russia out there for everybody to see, not just for this case, but for every case. Because this is just the tip of an iceberg. It just happens to be a well-documented iceberg, and I have the opportunity to come and speak to you about it.
But this is going on everywhere on a grand scale, and not just in Russia. It went on in Ukraine. That's why the president of Ukraine was run out of the country: because people couldn't tolerate it anymore. It completely ruins the lives of average Russians, because the money doesn't go to build hospitals and schools. The money goes to villas, yachts, and foreign bank accounts, and to fancy prep schools for their children, and that's where the whole problem is.