Senator Cardin Calls Upon Other Countries to Impose Visa Sanctions Against 60 Russian Officials

May 4, 2010

Sen­a­tor Cardin Calls Upon Oth­er Coun­tries to Fol­low U.S. Exam­ple and Impose Visa Sanc­tions Against 60 Russ­ian Offi­cials and Oth­ers Involved in the Tor­ture and Death of Sergei Magnitsky

4 May 2010 – The U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Rela­tions has includ­ed in the offi­cial Sen­ate record the list of 60 Russ­ian offi­cials and oth­ers involved in a $230 mil­lion cor­rup­tion case and the tor­ture and death of 37-year-old lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky. (See: Tran­script of a Busi­ness Meet­ing of the U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Rela­tions at: http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/042710.pdf, pages 50 – 52).

On 27 April 2010, the Sen­ate For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee held a busi­ness meet­ing chaired by Sen­a­tor John Ker­ry, to dis­cuss the mark-ups of the U.S. State Depart­ment autho­ri­sa­tion bill. Dur­ing the meet­ing, Sen­a­tor Ben­jamin Cardin spoke about his request to the U.S. State Depart­ment to deny per­ma­nent­ly U.S. visas to over 60 Russ­ian offi­cials and oth­ers involved in a $230 mil­lion cor­rup­tion exposed by a Moscow-based lawyer for Her­mitage Cap­i­tal, Sergei Mag­nit­sky, his retal­ia­to­ry arrest on false charges by the same offi­cials he had accused and his sub­se­quent tor­ture and death in cus­tody. Sen­a­tor Cardin point­ed out that “these offi­cials remain unpun­ished and in a posi­tion of power.”

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