‘Why that’s so interesting is that there’s £300 billion of assets under management in Jersey, and if any jurisdiction can have a huge effect on offshore gangster money, it’s Jersey. Other countries have followed suit with their own versions – the UK (in 2018) and Canada (in 2017) among them – while last December, he tells me, the EU ‘unanimously approved the framework of a Magnitsky Act.’ Just as excitingly, says Browder, so too has Jersey. A great many Russians fall under its sway, Vladimir Putin included. He’s hounded those he believes are responsible, tracing the $230 million he says the malefactors have stolen and managing to persuade the USA to pass the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US government to impose visa bans and targeted sanctions on individuals anywhere in the world who authorities suspect are responsible for human rights violations or acts of significant corruption. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab shows Bill Brosder the finished product of the UK Magnitsky Act PIPPA FOWLES / N10 DOWNING STREET HANDOUT / EPA-EFE / Shutterstockīrowder is famous – world-famous – for saying that the Russians did do something very wrong to Magnitsky.
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