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7/4/11

Netherlands bans Magnitsky officials - by Tom Washington

Europe’s relations with Russia have been handed another test, as Dutch lawmakers voted unanimously to slap sanctions on Russian officials on the ever more notorious Magnitsky list.

In The Hague, 150 Dutch MPs voted in favor of sanctions against 60 officials implicated in the prosecution and death in disputed circumstances of Sergei Magnitsky.


Magnitsky was a lawyer with British hedge fund Hermitage Capital and claimed to have exposed how Russian officials had embezzled $230 million of public funds.

Bill Browder, Magnistky’s boss at Hermitage Capital, said that the Dutch bill was the start of a chain of similar resolutions across Europe. 

“I’m certain,” he told The Moscow News. “We have been in discussions with other parliaments, in Norway, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Luxembourg, the UK and there have been similar reactions, it’s been universal across these parliaments.”

For more: Netherlands bans Magnitsky officials | SOCIETY | The Moscow News

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