The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Head of the UK Russia Alexander Bastrykin was included in the list of people banned from entering Latvia because of the case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. About this said the Internet version of the leading Latvian media.
on Thursday, the foreign Minister of Latvia Edgars rinkä?viä?s on his page on Twitter said that banned entry to Latvia 49 persons. The Minister justified this step adopted in the Seimas decision on calling to set penalties for persons associated with the " Magnitsky case ", the second part of article 61 of the immigration act and the resolution of the Prime Minister of Latvia from 22 Feb.
included in the list of Kadyrov, Bastrykin, and also the former employee of special services of Russia, the suspect the British Prosecutor's office In the forced deprivation of life of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi and many others.
The eighth of February, the Seimas attempted to convince the government to impose penalties against individuals related to " Magnitsky case ". The private bill, the Sejm condemned the Russian Federation, as if it would be enough to investigate the circumstances of the death Magnitsky, and also noticed that Latvia has consistently opposed the blatant human rights violations, financial fraud and bribery.
The project was developed by the Commission of the diet on foreign Affairs. For reviews of Seim, in the list of undesirable to Latvia of persons necessary to include in relation to the Magnitsky case of foreigners, forbidding them entry into Latvia.
an employee of a large investment Fund Hermitage Capital Management Sergey Magnitsky claimed that Russia was sanctioned large-scale theft by Russian officials. Russian law enforcement officials accused Magnitsky of tax fraud, he died in SIZO "Matrosskaya Tishina" in November 2009, having been in prison for almost a year. His death caused a wide public resonance both in Russia and abroad.
Associated with Magnitsky of punishment, which prohibits the entry and use of the financial system of countries that have already adopted such countries as USA, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, UK. Russian authorities from their side have many times stated about the illegality of the politicization of the " Magnitsky case ".
first Deputy Chairman of the Department of the state Duma's international vzaimootnosheniyam Alexei chepa (a just Russia ) told Last news that the Russian Federation will have to respond, if Latvia will adopt its own law, the same " the law Magnitsky ".