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What Do the Magnitsky Acts Allow Governments to Do?
If we had started imposing just a very small portion of the sant ns that we're doing right now, he might have thought differently out the risks and rewards of doing a full scale invasion in ukraine. The magnitsky act is named after sirgey magnitsky, my lawyer, whom i mentioned, was killed in russian police custody. It's a piece of legislation which was put in place when the russians basely try to cover up the whole crime and pretend it didn't happen. And what it does as it freezes assets and bands the visa of individual officials involved in human rights ofuse and involved in corruption. There are now 34 countries that have the magnets