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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia Rep. Dana Rohrabacher accused of violating US sanctions on Russia
A pro-Putin California congressman has been accused of violating US sanctions on Russia
Source: Business Insider
A new complaint filed with the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control alleges that California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and his staff director, Paul Behrends, violated the Magnitsky Act when they tried to get Russia's deputy general prosecutor, Victor Grin, removed from the US sanctions list last year.
The complaint was filed by US financier Bill Browder, the founder of Hermitage Capital Management, who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act in 2012 to punish Russian officials suspected of being involved in the death of his account, Sergey Magnitsky.
Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million tax fraud scheme in 2008 when he was working for Hermitage that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. He was later thrown in jail by the same Interior Ministry officers he testified against during criminal proceedings to punish those involved in the tax scheme, Browder said in 2015, and died in custody after being held for 358 days.
Browder's complaint rests largely on a Daily Beast report published last week alleging that Rohrabacher, a staunch defender of Russia and Putin, met with officials from the prosecutor generals office in Moscow in April 2016. The report said he accepted a "confidential" document that Rohrabacher then used to try to undermine the Magnitsky Act on Capitol Hill.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dana-rohrabacher-russia-sanctions-magnitsky-2017-7
Source: Business Insider
A new complaint filed with the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control alleges that California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and his staff director, Paul Behrends, violated the Magnitsky Act when they tried to get Russia's deputy general prosecutor, Victor Grin, removed from the US sanctions list last year.
The complaint was filed by US financier Bill Browder, the founder of Hermitage Capital Management, who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act in 2012 to punish Russian officials suspected of being involved in the death of his account, Sergey Magnitsky.
Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million tax fraud scheme in 2008 when he was working for Hermitage that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. He was later thrown in jail by the same Interior Ministry officers he testified against during criminal proceedings to punish those involved in the tax scheme, Browder said in 2015, and died in custody after being held for 358 days.
Browder's complaint rests largely on a Daily Beast report published last week alleging that Rohrabacher, a staunch defender of Russia and Putin, met with officials from the prosecutor generals office in Moscow in April 2016. The report said he accepted a "confidential" document that Rohrabacher then used to try to undermine the Magnitsky Act on Capitol Hill.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dana-rohrabacher-russia-sanctions-magnitsky-2017-7
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California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher accused of violating US sanctions on Russia (Original Post)
MelissaB
Jul 2017
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Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)1. Jail time!
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)2. 2nd that one...Jail Time...
Initech
(100,076 posts)6. *Trump voice* JAIL TIME!!!!
skylucy
(3,739 posts)3. And it couldn't be happening to a more deserving asshole.
procon
(15,805 posts)4. Lock him up! Lock him up! Traitor! nt