UK Bans 60 Officials Over Magnitsky Death

Wall Street Journal

Are secret blacklists becoming a way to keep people out of a country?

The U.K. secretly banned 60 people implicated in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management who died while in Russian custody in 2009 after alleging that senior police officials had defrauded the investment firm. Those same police officials arrested him for the crimes he accused them of committing.

Magnitsky has been hailed by activists as a martyr, and justice for his death has been a cause of William Browder, head of Hermitage, which was once the biggest portfolio investor in Russia. The U.K. move follows a similar visa ban imposed by the U.S. in July.

The U.S. action drew an angry rebuke from Russia, which drew up its own blacklist of U.S. officials at the time.

U.K. weekly newspaper The Observer previously reported the ban. The U.K. Home Office declined to comment on individual cases to the paper, but said: “We can refuse a visa when an individual’s character, conduct or associations make entry to the U.K. undesirable.” быстрые займы онлайн срочный займ на карту https://zp-pdl.com/fast-and-easy-payday-loans-online.php www.zp-pdl.com payday loan