We eventually learned that, right around this time, the most senior Swiss federal police officer investigating money laundering connected to the Magnitsky case, a man named Vinzenz Schnell, was caught taking a secret, unauthorized trip to Moscow to meet with none other than Natalia Veselnitskaya. It was later discovered that while he was actively trying to sabotage the Swiss Magnitsky investigation, Schnell went on a lavish hunting trip in Russia that was paid for by a Russian oligarch. Schnell was eventually fired and convicted in a Swiss court.

