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The United States has included the Akhmat Chechen football club, the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, and several other organizations and individuals associated with Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov on the sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act.
The United States Department of the Treasury, as part of the Global Magnitsky Act, imposed sanctions against four Russian citizens and six Russian legal entities associated with Chechnya chief Ramzan Kadyrov. This is indicated in a message on the agency’s website.
The sanctions targeted the Kadyrov Foundation named after his father, Akhmat Kadyrov, and the Akhmat football club. Organizations that were included on the sanctions list also included promotional company Absolute Championship Akhmat, Chechen Mineral Waters, and Megastroyinvest.
In addition, the Chechen fighter Timur Duzagayev living in Germany, Kadyrov’s assistant Daniil Martynov, the plenipotentiary representative of Chechnya under the President of Russia Ziyad Sabsabi, the commander of the second regiment of the patrol and guard service of the Ministry of the Interior of Chechnya Vakhit Usmayev, and the equestrian sports coach were also sanctioned. Satish, who is called Kadyrov’s horse trainer.
The sanctions are scheduled to coincide with International Human Rights Day, the ministry said.
“Kadyrov … is the leader of a Kadyrovtsy organization whose members have been implicated in serious human rights violations. Kadyrov and the forces under his command … have been implicated in the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a politician opposed to the president Russian Vladimir Putin, and other serious human rights violations “. – says the message.
Kadyrov himself was placed on the sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act in December 2017 “for extrajudicial executions, torture and other serious human rights violations.”
In December 2012, the United States passed the “Magnitsky Act,” which introduces personal sanctions against those responsible for violations of human rights and the principle of the rule of law.
October 3, 2016 Putin announced the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the treaty with the United States on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium… He also submitted to the State Duma a draft law suspending cooperation, in which called for the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions by the United States as a condition for their resumption and the “Magnitsky law”, which reduces the presence of troops in countries that joined NATO since 2000, as well as compensation for damages for Russian sanctions and “forced counter-sanctions.”
On December 9, 2016, the United States Congress passed the “Global Magnitsky Act.” And on December 24, President Obama signed the country’s defense policy and budget bill for 2017, which provides for the adoption of the “Magnitsky Act on Global Human Rights.” Under the law, the President of the United States can impose sanctions on citizens of any foreign country if they are shown to be related to serious human rights violations and corruption. It should be noted that sanctions may include an entry ban into the United States and an assets freeze.
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