European Parliament Adopts Magnitsky Sanctions List on 32 Russians

April 2, 2014

Today the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion on tar­get­ed asset freezes and visa sanc­tions on 32 Rus­sians in the Mag­nit­sky case. It is now for the EU Coun­cil to decide on its enactment. 
The Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions res­o­lu­tion was adopt­ed with no objec­tions. The EU sanc­tions list com­pris­es Russ­ian offi­cials and pri­vate indi­vid­u­als who played a role in the Mag­nit­sky case both before and after the death of whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer, includ­ing those Rus­sians who took part in the posthu­mous tri­al of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, the first-ever in Russ­ian legal his­to­ry, in spite of the protests from the Mag­nit­sky fam­i­ly bring­ing fur­ther pain and suf­fer­ing to his sur­viv­ing relatives.
“With the pass­ing of this Res­o­lu­tion by the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, the EU is now join­ing the US efforts in bring­ing an end to impuni­ty of those in Rus­sia who were involved in the false arrest and death of Sergei Mag­nit­sky and in the con­spir­a­cy he had exposed, and the cov­er up of those acts,” said William Brow­der, leader of Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice movement.
The res­o­lu­tion calls for sanc­tions be imposed as a first step on 32 indi­vid­u­als, includ­ing 16 offi­cials that have already been sanc­tioned by the U.S. Gov­ern­ment under the Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act of 2012. The most senior Russ­ian gov­ern­ment offi­cials on the EU sanc­tions list, who are not on the pub­lic part of the U.S. list, are Russ­ian Deputy Gen­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor Vic­tor Grin, and Head of FSB Finan­cial Counter-Intel­li­gence Depart­ment Vic­tor Voronin.
“Today’s adop­tion by the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment of the Res­o­lu­tion on the com­mon visa restric­tions for Russ­ian offi­cials involved in the Sergei Mag­nit­sky case is an impor­tant sig­nal into two direc­tions. First of all to the Euro­pean Mem­ber States, which– despite repeat­ed res­o­lu­tions by the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment- have not moved for­ward on the Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions list. On the oth­er hand, to the Russ­ian offi­cials men­tioned on the list, who should have under­stood by now that the human rights vio­la­tions com­mit­ted against Sergei Mag­nit­sky will not go unno­ticed,” said Chair of the Human Rights Sub­com­mit­tee of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment Bar­bara Lochbihler.

“Mem­bers from across the polit­i­cal divide have been cam­paign­ing for this move for well over a year. The Mag­nit­sky case reminds us that Rus­sia, in spite of its inter­na­tion­al legal oblig­a­tions, has for some time now in many cas­es dis­pensed with Euro­pean stan­dards of democ­ra­cy, free­dom and the rule of law even before its recent aggres­sion against Ukraine. I am con­fi­dent that these tar­get­ed sanc­tions called for by the Par­lia­ment, if approved by the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters, will have a real effect on those con­cerned, and will send a clear sig­nal to Pres­i­dent Putin that gross vio­la­tions of uni­ver­sal human rights will bring con­se­quences against the per­pe­tra­tors,” said Charles Tan­nock, Mem­ber of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment from the UK. 

“As the peo­ple involved in this case have not been brought to jus­tice in Rus­sia, we have the oblig­a­tion to at least for­bid their entrance to the EU and freeze their assets that are in our Mem­ber States,” said Mem­ber of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment from Esto­nia Kris­ti­ina Ojuland.
“It has been more than four years since the death of Sergej Mag­nit­sky, he is the most promi­nent vic­tim of the abuse of pow­er by the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment, but sad­ly only one of many. ..In light of cur­rent devel­op­ments, strength­en­ing the EU’s voice on human rights and the rule of law in Rus­sia has become even more impor­tant,” said Mari­et­je Schaake, a Dutch politi­cian and MEP.

For more infor­ma­tion please contact:

Her­mitage Capital
Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Movement
+44 207 440 1777
info@lawandorderinrussia.org
http://lawandorderinrussia.org

Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions List of 32 Per­sons Adopt­ed by the Euro­pean Parliament

1. ALISOV, Igor, born 11 March 1968;
2. DROGANOV, Alek­sey (a.k.a. DROGANOV, Alex­ei), born 11 Octo­ber 1975;
3. EGOROVA, Olga, born 29 June 1955;
4. GAUS, Alexan­dra, born 29 March 1975;
5. GERASIMOVA, Anas­ta­sia, born 22 Jan­u­ary 1982;
6. GRIN, Vic­tor, born 1 Jan­u­ary 1951;
7. KARPOV, Pavel, born 27 August 1977;
8. KHIMINA, Yele­na (a.k.a. KHIMINA, Ele­na), born 11 Feb­ru­ary 1953;
9. KLYUEV, Dmit­ry (a.k.a. KLYUEV, Dmitriy or KLYUEV, Dmitri), born
10 August 1967;
10. KOMNOV, Dmitriy (a.k.a. KOMNOV, Dmitri), born 17 May 1977;
11. KRIVORUCHKO, Alek­sey (a.k.a. KRIVORUCHKO, Alex or KRIVORUCHKO,
Alex­ei), born 25 August 1977;
12. KUZNETSOV, Artem (a.k.a. KUZNETSOV, Arty­om), born 28 Feb­ru­ary 1975;
13. LOGUNOV, Oleg, born 4 Feb­ru­ary 1962;
14. MAYOROVA, Yulya (a.k.a. MAYOROVA, Yulia), born 23 April 1979;
15. PAVLOV, Andrey (a.k.a. Pavlov, Andrei), born 7 August 1977;
16. PECHEGIN, Andrey (a.k.a. PECHEGIN, Andrei), born 24 Sep­tem­ber 1965;
17. PODOPRIGOROV, Sergei, born 8 Jan­u­ary 1974;
18. PONOMAREV, Kon­stan­tin, born 14 August 1971;
19. PROKOPENKO, Ivan Pavlovitch, born 28 Sep­tem­ber 1973;
20. REZNICHENKO, Mikhail, born 20 Feb­ru­ary 1985;
21. SAPUNOVA, Mari­na, born 19 June 1971;
22. SHUPOLOVSKY, Mikhail, born 28 Sep­tem­ber 1983;
23. SILCHENKO, Oleg, born 25 June 1977;
24. STASHINA, Yele­na (a.k.a. STASHINA, Ele­na or STASHINA, Helen), born
5 Nov 1963;
25. STEPANOVA, Olga, born 29 July 1962;
26. STROITELEV, Denis, born 23 Jan­u­ary 1973;
27. TAGIEV, Fikhret, born 3 April 1962;
28. TOLCHINSKIY, Dmit­ry (a.k.a. TOLCHINSKY, Dmitriy or TOLCHINSKIY,
Dmitri), born 11 May 1982;
29. UKHNALYOVA, Svet­lana (a.k.a. UKHNALEV, Svet­lana or UKHNALEVA,
Svet­lana V.), born 14 March 1973;
30. URZHUMTSEV, Oleg, born 22 Octo­ber 1968;
31. VINOGRADOVA, Natalya, born 16 June 1973;
32. VORONIN, Vic­tor, born 11 Feb­ru­ary 1958

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