Last year Britain passed a version of the US Magnitsky Act, named after the Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/APThe foreign secretary has promised to enforce a British version of the Magnitsky Act, allowing the government to ban from the country anyone deemed guilty of human rights offences. Dominic Raab told the Tory party conference: “The British people don’t want those with blood on their hands doing their Christmas shopping in Knightsbridge or laundering their dirty money through British banks . our vision of global Britain means being a force for good in the world.”The US passed a law known as the Magnitsky Act in 2012, imposing visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials, after the death of the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow jail. The UK passed a “Magnitsky amendment” to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.…

Source: The Times September 29, 2019 23:11 UTC