Senator seeks visa sanctions in Russia case

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A Senator on Monday asked Washington to cancel U.S. visa privileges for 60 Russian officials and others over the death in jail last year of a lawyer for what was once Russia's top equity fund, Hermitage.

Senator Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who chairs the human rights monitoring U.S. Helsinki Commission, asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to scrap visa privileges for those accused of ties to the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

Human rights activists have said Russian authorities subjected Magnitsky to conditions amounting to torture in a failed bid to force him to testify in their favor in a battle with Hermitage over tax fraud allegations.

"While there are many aspects of this case which are impossible to pursue here in the United States, one step we can take, however, is to deny the individuals involved in this crime and their immediate family members the privilege of visiting our country," Cardin said in a letter to Clinton made public on Monday.

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but this part was really funny.

"The United States has a clear policy of denying entry to individuals involved in corruption, and it is imperative that the U.S. Department of State act promptly on this matter."


LOL, umm, think we need to clean up a few areas in the USA first.




Although the ironic part, is many people do not think of the banking or control scandals as corruption, but actually think that is the way things are suppose to be.

Of course, we would never do that to anybody...