U.S. senators have drafted a bill on personal sanctions against Russian officials involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
In particular, the document requires “a report on the sources and extent of the personal wealth of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and his family members”. The bill provides for the freezing of assets and denial of visas to officials responsible for gross violations of international law, including the recent poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
The bill obliges the U.S authorities to determine whether the Russian authorities violated international agreements on the prohibition of the use of chemical and biological weapons, and requires increased contacts with Berlin to convince Germany to abandon the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
The bill is initiated by Democrats Chris Coons, Ben Cardin (author of the Magnitsky Act), Chris Van Hollen and Republicans Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney.
Alexey Navalny was hospitalized in August with symptoms of severe poisoning. Laboratories in the EU have found traces of the Russian-developed military poisonous substance Novichok in his body. The U.S. and the European Union called on Moscow to investigate the attack. No criminal cases related to the poisoning have been initiated in Russia.
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Bill Browder; near to the top of putler’s kill list and the inspiration behind the Magnitsky Act; is a world authority on putler’s thieved wealth. He puts it at around $200 billion; hidden in a labyrinth of companies and numbered accounts and all in other people’s names. Even his daughters are billionaires.
Nice to see Dems and Republicans working together on this. Let’s hope this bill does not disappear like the sanctions from hell.
Block these accounts and give it to Ukraine.
“The bill provides for the freezing of assets and denial of visas to officials responsible for gross violations of international law, including the recent poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.”
Start at the top, and work down, instead of sanctioning some useful idiots at the bottom of the ladder.
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They stole Alexei’s money. Seize the crap out of their wallets and give it to Alexei and handicapped ukrainian soldiers.
Please, just sanction the pants off of all of these criminals who are running the country mafia land! Regardless of who you sanction, you will get the right ones.
Hard to sanction everyone but Vladolf and believe they all decided for themselves and poor little Vladolf had nothing to do with their decisions. Like F1 says, start with Vladolf and kick him off everything.
My statement “sanction the pants off of all of these criminals” definitely includes the dwarf. But, I’m afraid that once again he will be spared any punishment even though he deserves it the most.
They may be onto something now if they’ll start sanctioning his billionaire daughters. It probably won’t happen but I’d like to see all his money confiscated and given to Ukraine and Georgia.