McCain Requests Additional Sanctions in Magnitsky Case

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain on Tuesday said he expected President Barack Obama to consider additional sanctions in the case of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in 2009. In his letter to Obama, McCain proposed imposing sanctions against an organized crime group he claims comprises Russian officials and bankers allegedly involved in Magnitsky’s death. Russia has warned that it would respond to the adoption of the bill in kind, imposing restrictions on U.S. officials. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would impose sanctions on Russian officials allegedly linked to Magnitsky’s death in 2009.

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