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CEO Hermitage Capital, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice campaign, and Author of Red Notice & Freezing Order (April 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: ⁦@SenatorCardin⁩ ⁦@RepCohen⁩ and ⁦@RepJoeWilson⁩ the 3 most senior members of the US Helsinki Commission call on President Biden to sanction the remaining 255 Russian officials who played a role in Sergei Magnitsky’s murder and the crime he exposed Image Sergei Magnitsky was murdered more than 12 years ago and the Magnitsky Act was passed 10 years ago. It’s time for the US to apply the legislation that was named after Sergei to every Russian official who played any role is his demise or the cover up that followed.
Mar 13, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
A ridiculous number of Russians (75%) support Putin’s war in Ukraine. Why? Because they’re bombarded with patently false information in the Russian state media. Here’s a sample: “Ukrainian neo-nazis are keeping hostage as a 'human shield' 6900 citizens from 16 countries” Here’s another example of fake Russian news: “Russian military freed hostages taken by a Ukranian nationalist batallion at a monastery near Mariupol”
Apr 26, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: U.K. applies Magnitsky sanctions to 14 Russians who were involved in the corruption that Sergei Magnitsky exposed and was killed over. These are the first U.K. Magnitsky sanctions using the new anti corruption tool which was unveiled by U.K. Foreign Secretary Raab today The list includes Dmitry Klyuev, head of the Klyuev Organized Crimes Group, who was the mastermind of the $230m fraud that Sergei Magnitsky exposed. It also includes Klyuev’s consigliere Andrei Pavlov, who organized the whole fraud.
Jan 24, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Departing Trump lifts Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler 5 days before leaving office. These sanctions were one of the big success stories of the Global Magnitsky Act and lifting them a big setback for anti corruption campaigners. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0… Here is the actual US Treasury form lifting Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler
Nov 20, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
After Swiss AG is fired for corruption and a key prosecutor on the Magnitsky case in Switzerland is convicted of bribery from Russia, Swiss authorities announce they are returning 99% of Veselnitskaya’s client’s money that was frozen in Magnitsky case thedailybeast.com/switzerland-bo… The Swiss also plan to return 100% of the frozen money belonging to Dmitry Klyuev, head of the Klyuev Organized Crime group & mastermind of the fraud that Sergei Magnitsky uncovered and was killed over. They are doing this even though Klyuev is sanctioned on the US Magnitsky list
Aug 20, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Putin Opponent Alexei Navalny Poisoned by ‘Toxin’ in His Tea. Currently he is unconscious and in intensive care. This is extremely bad news thedailybeast.com/putin-opponent… Navalny was on a plane from Siberia to Mosocow and had to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk when he lost consciousness. This is extremely worrying because few, if any, doctors in Omsk will have the expertise to deal with sophisticated KGB poisons
Jul 6, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
BREAKING: UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to announce implementation of U.K. Magnitsky Act today. First group of sanctions will be applied to Sergei Magnitsky’s killers. Huge milestone in our 10 campaign for justice. amp.ft.com/content/cdf084… Foreign Secretary Raab described Sergei Magnitsky as the “Solzhenitsyn of his time” for the horror he had to endure before dying at the hands of the brutal Russian state.
Dec 12, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Wir haben heute beim Deutschen Presserat eine Beschwerde gegen das Der Spiegel eingereicht. Schweres journalistisches Fehlverhalten bezüglich der Berichterstattung zum Fall Magnitski. Video welches die Falschmeldungen aufdeckt Hier ist eine Kopie unserer Beschwerde bei der Deutschen Pressekommission gegen das Magazin Der Spiegel wegen dessen groben journalistischen Fehlverhaltens bei der Berichterstattung über den Magnitsky-Fall russian-untouchables.com/rus/docs/2019%…
Dec 11, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Today we filed a complaint with the German Press Commision against Der Spiegel magazine for gross journalistic malpractice in their reporting on the Magnitsky story. See our YouTube video that exposes their misreporting BREAKING: Here is a copy of our complaint with the German Press Commission against Der Spiegel magazine for their gross journalistic malpractice in their reporting on the Magnitsky case russian-untouchables.com/rus/docs/2019%…
Nov 21, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Dutch Parliament votes 95-54 passing resolution requiring Dutch government to begin implementing a Dutch Magnitsky Act by January 31 2020 if the EU continues to block the implementation on an EU Magnitsky Act ⁦@swsjoerdsmatweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/m… All Dutch political parties voted in favor of the Dutch Magnitsky Act resolution except VVD (the government party) and PVV and FvD (the two fat right parties).
Jun 5, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: A Swiss Federal Police officer who specialized in Russian money laundering (and was the officer on the Swiss Magnitsky case) has been found guilty by a Swiss court of accepting favors from Russia including a hunting trip in Siberia nzz.ch/schweiz/urteil… This shocking rot inside the Swiss law enforcement system might explain why the money laundering case that we reported to the Swiss authorities in 2011 in connection to Magnitsky’s murder still hasn’t been taken to court 8 years later.
May 16, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
BREAKING: US Government just added five Russians to US Magnitsky list in latest sanctions for gross human rights abuse in Russia. List includes two Russian law enforcement officials involved in the persecution of Sergei Magnitsky. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel… List includes Elena Trikulya, a 44 year officer with Russian State Investigative Committee (Russia’s equivalent to FBI), who played an active role in the cover-up of Sergei Magnitsky’s murder in 2010
Apr 8, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Shocking development. On April 15-19 Interpol’s Commision for the Control of Files will consider Russia’s 7th attempt to use Interpol channels to have me arrested after Interpol rejected Russia’s previous 6 attempts as politically motivated. The Russian official responsible for the current and previous illegitimate attempts to abuse Interpol in my case, Petr Gorodov, is now a member of Interpol’s Commission for the Control of Files, the body that decides whether or not to kick out illegitimate notices
Dec 7, 2018 21 tweets 9 min read
BREAKING: 45 MP’s and MEP’s from 18 EU countries publish open letter in 27 European publications calling on the EU to pass the EU Magnitsky Act on December 10th (and not to delete Sergei Magnitsky’s name as the Dutch FM Blok suggested) Here’s the European politicians Magnitsky call in @dagensnyheter in Sweden
Oct 20, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
There’s no longer any dispute that Saudi Arabian officials killed Jamal Khashoggi. The US, UK, and Canada must immediately apply the Magnitsky Act to those who participated in, ordered and covered up the killing. All countries who don’t have a Magnitsky Act should pass one ASAP For those unfamiliar with the Magnitsky Act, it freezes assets and bans visa of people involved in torture, extrajudicial killing and other gross human rights abuses. It would have a dramatic effect of wealthy Saudi princes