MOSCOW, December 21 - RAPSI, Diana Gutsul. A witness who testified at the Tverskoy District Court on Thursday in the case against Dmitry Kratov, the former head of a Moscow investigative isolation ward, said no attempts were made to resuscitate the late Sergei Magnitsky, the court told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com).

On Thursday, the court continued to interrogate the witnesses in the case.

Kratov has been accused of negligence leading to Magnitsky's death.

"The posthumous conclusion should contain a sentence about resuscitation efforts and their consequences. Traces of these efforts would definitely remain, and there are none on Sergei's body," witness Timur Guseynov, who is Magnitsky's uncle and an anesthetist and resuscitation specialist, said.

Previously surgeon Alexadra Gauss claimed that she rendered resuscitation aid to Magnitsky. Later, a psychiatrist refuted her statement, claiming that if there were any attempts to resuscitate Magnitsky, they were made only after he was dead.

Magnitsky, who was a managing partner at the Firestone Duncan auditing firm and a legal consultant at the Hermitage Capital Management investment fund, was detained on November 24, 2008.

On the same day, the Investigative Committee charged him with tax evasion as part of a criminal case against Hermitage Capital Management.

On November 26, the Tverskoy District Court issued an arrest warrant in his name. On November 16, 2009, he died in the Matrosskaya Tishina investigative isolation ward where he had been held for almost a year. His death incited a public uproar.

Apart from Kratov, the ward's doctor Larisa Litvinova was also a defendant in the case. However, the Investigative Committee closed the case against her last spring due to amendments to the Criminal Code affecting the statute of limitations.