Bill Browder, an American-born financier, political activist, and well-known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin says the only way to rein in the Kremlin's reach in Ukraine is to suppress its financial means.
Bill Browder, an American-born financier, political activist, and well-known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin says the only way to rein in the Kremlin’s reach in Ukraine is to suppress its financial means.
His lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who testified against the Russian government, was detained without trial, tortured and later murdered while in a Moscow prison on Nov. 16, 2009.Its led to the creation of the Magnitsky Act, legislation passed in a host of countries including the U.S. and Canada, that gives governments the ability to freeze the assets and ban the visas of international human rights abusers.
“We need to sanction a whole lot more oligarchs, we have disconnected 70 per cent of Russian banks from the SWIFT international banking centre, we need to disconnect 100 per cent of the banks. But the elephant in the room is oil and gas,” he said.
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