BAN DEATH PLOT RUSSIANS’

Express, by Tracey Boles

A BRITISH-BASED financier whose lawyer died in a Russian jail is calling for the 60 people he says are responsible to be banned from entering Europe.

Bill Browder, an American-born British citizen who founded hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management, met representatives from the European Parliament last week to seek “visa sanctions” for the 60 Russian officials.

They are accused of helping to carry out a $230million (£150million) theft from the Russian treasury that was uncovered by Hermitage’s lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 37.

When Mr Magnitksy gave evidence he was arrested, tortured and died in state custody.

European governments are calling on Russia to step up their investigation. Mr Browder is also lobbying the UK to adopt the visa sanctions, which are already being considered by America.

Friends of Mr Magnitsky have mounted a YouTube video campaign claiming to expose the Russian officials responsible for the huge theft, generating a strong reaction among the Russian public. This has caused the alleged perpetrators of the fraud to accuse Mr Browder and other colleagues of criminal slander as well as issuing death threats against them. The anti-terrorist unit of Scotland Yard, SO15, is investigating the threats.

Mr Browder, who is banned from entering Russia as a “threat to national security”, said: “The old KGB tactic of suppressing information simply does not work in the internet age.”

Last week, friends of the lawyer released the second in a series of YouTube videos about corruption among Russian law officers.

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