Russia bans 39 Australian security officials and top managers from entering

The decision was taken as a response to restrictions against the Russians,which Australia adopted under the "Magnitsky Act"

Russian authorities have banned 39 Australian citizens from entering the country, according to a statement posted on the Foreign Ministry website.

“In response to the earlier decision of the official Canberra to impose sanctions under the Australian analogue of the Magnitsky Act, the Russian Federation, on the basis of reciprocity, additionally adds 39 people to the national “stop list” from among the representatives of law enforcement agencies, the border service, as well as contractor companies the defense sector of Australia, ”the Foreign Ministry explained the reason for the imposition of sanctions.

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Among the persons who were banned from entering Russia:

www. Australian First Deputy Home Secretary Michael Pezzullo and five other deputies; Interior Department Directors Joe Buffon, Hamish Hansford, Michael Milford, Sophie Sharp, Pip de We; Ministers and Commissioners of Corrections and Police Commissioners in the Australian states; Australian Border Services Department DIRECTOR Malcolm Skinny, and Border Services Commissioner Michael Outram and his assistants; top management of the defense company Serco.

The Foreign Ministry added that in a situation where the Australian authorities "continue to whip up Russophobic sentiments and pursue a policy of expanding sanctions," they reserve the right "to take further countermeasures."

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Sanctions , in response to which the Foreign Ministry announced new measures, Australia introduced at the end of March. They affected 14 Russian citizens "responsible for serious corruption", and another 25 Russians - according to Canberra, "perpetrators and accomplices in the issue of abuse and death" of Hermitage Capital Management fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky. The list of those who fell under the sanctions was not given.

Magnitsky discovered the theft of funds from the Russian budget. The auditor was arrested on charges of creating tax evasion schemes, which, according to the prosecution, the foundation used. In the fall of 2009, he died in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in Moscow. A few months before his death, Magnitsky, and subsequently his widow and mother, applied to the European COURT of Human Rights. In 2019, the court ordered Russia to pay €34,000 to the relatives of the deceased, finding Russia guilty of violating several paragraphs of the Convention on Human Rights.

In 2012, the United States adopted the "Magnitsky Act" on sanctions against Russians involved, according to them, in human rights violations. Four years later, the United States adopted a global document of the same name that extends the law to other countries.

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