European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Adopts First European Magnitsky List with 32 Names 18 March 2014 – Today the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for targeted asset freezes and visa sanctions on 32 individuals in the Magnitsky case in Europe. The top officials on the proposed sanctions list are Russian Deputy General Prosecutor Victor Grin, and Head of FSB Financial Counter-Intelligence Department Victor Voronin, two key officials who oversaw the case against Sergei Magnitsky and the proceedings in which officials Magnitsky had exposed for the $230 million theft had been exonerated. “Russia should understand that civilized people in the West wont tolerate impunity of Russian officials who participated in the torture and murder of Sergei Magnitsky,” said William Browder, leader of Magnitsky Justice campaign. 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. The EU list includes the names of previously convicted Dmitry Klyuev, former beneficial owner of Universal Savings Bank which received a portion of the stolen $230 million, and his associates Andrei Pavlov and Yulya Mayorova, who took part in collusive court proceedings orchestrated to disguise the $230 million theft. The proposed EU list further targets those involved in the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky, including judge Igor Alisov, and prosecution witness Konstantin Ponomarev. The resolution calls on EU Council to: “Establish a common EU list of officials responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the subsequent judicial cover up and for the ongoing and continuing harassment of his mother and widow.” (europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-528.148+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:34:46 +0000
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