New Magnitsky Sanctions Motion Introduced in the British Parliament

June 3, 2016

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New Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions Motion Intro­duced in the British Parliament

 

3 June 2016 – A new Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions motion has been intro­duced in the British Par­lia­ment. The new motion calls for visa sanc­tions and UK asset freezes for indi­vid­u­als affect­ed by the US Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act.

 

The UK’s Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion express­es con­cern that “many peo­ple in Rus­sia have died as a result of uncov­er­ing fraud, cor­rup­tion and human rights’ abus­es car­ried out in that country.”

 

The­mo­tion names a num­ber of indi­vid­u­als already sanc­tioned by the US Gov­ern­ment in the Mag­nit­sky case, includ­ing Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials Pavel Kar­pov, Artem Kuznetsov, Oleg Silchenko, Natalya Vino­grado­va, as well Russ­ian tax offi­cials Olga Stepano­va and Ele­na Khimina.

 

The UK’s ear­ly day Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion has been signed by mem­bers of all major UK polit­i­cal par­ties, includ­ing the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty, Labour Par­ty, Social Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Labour Par­ty, Scot­tish Nation­al Par­ty, and Lib­er­al Democrats.

 

“The British Gov­ern­ment should pur­sue those linked to Mag­nit­sky’s death,” said Tom Brake, MP, the pri­ma­ry spon­sor of the Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion.

 

The new Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion comes at a time when the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment is con­duct­ing a full-scale assault on Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions sup­port­ers both inside and out­side the coun­try. In the last month the Russ­ian author­i­ties opened a crim­i­nal case against William Brow­der and Alex­ei Naval­ny for a pur­port­ed CIA plot to kill Sergei Mag­nit­sky in Russ­ian police cus­tody. They also opened a crim­i­nal case against Alex­ei Naval­ny for alleged slan­der against US-sanc­tioned Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cer Pavel Kar­pov. In the con­text of that case, this week the Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry raid­ed Alex­ei Navalny’s home, seized all his phones, com­put­er and Inter­net equip­ment, as well as his daughter’s phone and computer.

 

U.S. Pres­i­dent Oba­ma signed the Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act of 2012 into law on Decem­ber 14, 2012. In Feb­ru­ary 2016, U.S. Sec­re­tary of State John Ker­ry sub­mit­ted to Con­gress the third annu­al report out­lin­ing the U.S. Government’s actions to imple­ment the Mag­nit­sky Act, and a new list of per­sons added to the Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions list.

 

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please contact:

 

Jus­tice for Sergei Magnitsky

+44 207 440 1777

e‑mail:info@lawandorderinrussia.org

www.lawandorderinrussia.org

billbrowder.com

https://twitter.com/Billbrowder

 

UK Ear­ly Day Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions Motion intro­duced in the Parliament:

https://www.parliament.uk/edm/2015 – ¹⁶⁄₁₃₄₄

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