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“In response to hostile actions by the British authorities and on the basis of reciprocity, the Russian side has decided to impose personal sanctions on 25 British representatives who have been banned from entering Russian territory,” the Foreign Ministry said. of Russia (MFA) in a statement.
In July, the UK imposed sanctions on 25 Russian officials on suspicion of having contributed to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Officials have been banned from entering the UK and their holdings in the UK have been frozen.
Among the sanctioned officials is Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, directly responsible to Vladimir Putin.
2009 Sergei Magnitsky, a tax advisor to British financier William Browder, died in prison from an incurable disease after publicly accusing Russian officials of embezzling 230 million euros. Dollars
Russia has rejected such allegations and accused Magnitsky of fraud and launched an investigation into his activities after his death.
Maria Zakharov, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, called the UK sanctions “an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of another country.” According to her, the ultimate goal of these sanctions is “to put pressure on the Russian legal system.”
In recent years, the West has imposed many sanctions on Russia for a number of crimes. Among them are the annexation of Crimea in 2014, attempts to interfere in foreign elections and in 2018, the poisoning of former agent Sergei Skripal occurred in Great Britain.
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