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Put 32 Russian officials on an EU „Magnitsky list”, urge Foreign Affairs MEPs
The EU should ban visas and freeze the EU assets of 32 Russian officials involved in the case of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, said the Foreign Affairs Committee in a resolution voted on Tuesday. Mr Magnitsky died in pre-trial detention in 2009, after allegedly having been tortured and deprived of medical care. The resolution names the officials.
The EU Council should draw up a common list of officials believed to be responsible for the torture and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, for its judicial cover-up and for continuing harassment of his mother and widow.
These officials should be banned from travelling in all EU countries and their financial assets held in the EU should be seized, say MEPs in a resolution drafted by Kristiina OJULAND (ALDE, EE) and adopted by 53 votes in favour, 1 against and 2 abstentions.
MEPs refer to independent investigations which found Mr Magnitsky was subjected to „inhumane conditions, deliberate neglect and torture” and point to the need for a joint and firm EU policy towards Russia. They also call on Russia to close the posthumous trial against Mr Magnitsky.
MEPs criticise the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton for failing to place the issue on the Foreign Affairs Council agenda, despite the European Parliament’s October 2012 request that she should do so.
The list
MEPs ask that the following Russian officials, amongst others, be placed on the list:
ALISOV, Igor
DROGANOV, Aleksey
EGOROVA, Olga
GAUS, Alexandra
GERASIMOVA, Anastasia
GRIN, Victor
KARPOV, Pavel
KHIMINA, Yelena
KLYUEV, Dmitry
KOMNOV, Dmitriy
KRIVORUCHKO, Aleksey
KUZNETSOV, Artem
LOGUNOV, Oleg,
MAYOROVA, Yulya
PAVLOV, Andrey
PECHEGIN, Andrey
PODOPRIGOROV, Sergei
PONOMAREV, Konstantin
PROKOPENKO, Ivan Pavlovitch
REZNICHENKO, Mikhail
SAPUNOVA, Marina
SHUPOLOVSKY, Mikhail
SILCHENKO, Oleg
STASHINA, Yelena
STEPANOVA, Olga
STROITELEV, Denis
TAGIEV, Fikhret
TOLCHINSKIY, Dmitry
UKHNALYOVA, Svetlana
URZHUMTSEV, Oleg
VINOGRADOVA, Natalya
VORONIN, Victor
Sixteen of the officials on this list have already been prohibited from entering the United States or using its banking system, by the US “Magnitsky bill”. MEPs suggest 16 additional names of officials which are involved in Mr Magnitsky’s posthumous trial.
At the same time, they stress that the list should be revised regularly and urge Russia to undertake a credible investigation into Mr Magnitsky’s death and bring those responsible to justice.
Next steps
The “Magnitsky list” recommendation has yet to be backed by the full House on April plenary (tbc).
The decision for establishing such a list should be taken by the EU Council.
In chair: Elmar Brok
Procedure: Non-legislative resolution
REF. : 20140317IPR39115
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A European Magnitsky List
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted on Tuesday to sanction 32 Russian officials involved in the persecution of Sergei Magnitsky, the Moscow lawyer who died in custody in 2009 after exposing official graft. The legislation follows America’s 2012 Magnitsky Act that currently targets 18 officials. When the European Parliament convenes in April, passage would send a signal that Russia’s neighbors will no longer ignore the nature of the Putin regime.
The bill would require all EU states to impose a “visa ban on these officials and to freeze any financial assets that they, or their immediate family, may hold within the European Union.” Among them are a number of Interior Ministry officers, including Oleg Logunov, who as head of the legal department of the ministry’s investigative committee was instrumental in Magnitsky’s unlawful detention. Also included is Igor Alisov, the judge who presided over Magnitsky’s Kafkaesque posthumous “tax-evasion” trial, and who read a “guilty” verdict to an empty defendant’s cage in 2013.
Europe may be tardy in targeting Magnitsky’s killers, but the Obama Administration’s record is worse. It first tried to kill the Magnitsky Act and then tried to water it down. An overwhelming majority in Congress from both parties forced the law on President Obama. Vladimir Putin retaliated by putting U.S. officials on a sanctions list of his own, and he even stopped Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
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