Sergei Magnitsky’s Mother Slams Russian Foreign Ministry’s Comments About New US Magnitsky List

February 11, 2016

Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s Moth­er Slams Russ­ian For­eign Min­istry’s Com­ments About New US Mag­nit­sky List

11 Feb­ru­ary 2016 – Natalia Mag­nit­skaya, the moth­er of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, released a state­ment today respond­ing to the Russ­ian For­eign Affairs Ministry’s recent com­men­tary that the expan­sion of the Mag­nit­sky list was an effort to “dis­cred­it” Russia.

Natalia Mag­nit­skaya asked the Russ­ian For­eign Affairs Min­istry to pub­lish her state­ment on its website.

“Each of the offi­cials [includ­ed in the list of Mag­nit­sky] has been involved in malfea­sance, act­ing with impuni­ty guar­an­teed by ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the 5.4 bil­lion rubles ($230 mln) theft, and is right­ly includ­ed in the sanc­tions list,” said Natalia Magnitskaya.

“Our coun­try is dis­cred­it­ed not by the exis­tence of this list, but by offi­cials who worked towards cor­rupt goals instead of per­form­ing their duties to safe­guard and pro­tect our coun­try and its cit­i­zens,” said Natalia Magnitskaya.
“I take as an insult the recent com­ment [from the Russ­ian For­eign Affairs Min­istry] that the trag­ic fate of my son was a ‘bar­gain­ing chip’ in the ‘unscrupu­lous Wash­ing­ton’s cam­paign to dis­cred­it our coun­try.’ For my son, such con­cepts as ‘hon­esty’, ‘hon­or’, ‘patri­o­tism’ and ‘duty’ were not emp­ty words, but his life’s prin­ci­ples”, said Ms Magnitskaya.

“The [Russ­ian] inves­ti­ga­tors and pros­e­cu­tors tasked to inves­ti­gate my son’s death and the embez­zle­ment of bud­get funds delib­er­ate­ly destroyed evi­dence, sab­o­taged the inves­ti­ga­tion, advanced know­ing­ly false the­o­ries and end­ed up with accus­ing my son after his death of orga­niz­ing the theft of 5.4 bil­lion rubles — the crime for the expo­sure of which he suf­fered mar­tyr­dom and death,” said Ms Magnitskaya.

“With bit­ter regret I note that the Mag­nit­sky Law and the Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions List, which the Russ­ian For­eign Affairs Ministry’s Infor­ma­tion Depart­ment called ‘noto­ri­ous,’ today are the only means to tell the pub­lic about the abus­es com­mit­ted by some offi­cials in the law enforce­ment and judi­cial author­i­ties,” said Ms Magnitskaya.

Ear­li­er this month, the US State Depart­ment announced the addi­tion of four Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials for their role in the posthu­mous per­se­cu­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky to the visa and finan­cial sanc­tions list under the “Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act of 2012.”

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New Entries in the Mag­nit­sky List, Feb­ru­ary 2016

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20160201.aspx

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