Canadian authorities have made a decision to impose sanctions against 52 foreign citizens, including 30 Russians, the Canadian government said in a statement on November 3.
“The sanctions target individuals who are, in the opinion of the Government of Canada, responsible for, or complicit in, gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or acts of significant corruption,” the statement said.
All assets of persons subjected to sanctions are frozen and those individuals are banned from entering Canada, it said.
Sanctions against all 52 people, including 30 Russians, were imposed in accordance with the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act adopted by the Canadian parliament recently, the statement said.
“Effective immediately, Canada is imposing sanctions against 30 individuals” linked to the case of Hermitage Capital fund employee Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a detention facility, it said.
Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin, former Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Anichin, Alexei Droganov, Alexandra Gaus, and others are among individuals subjected to sanctions.
The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act entered into effect in October after the Canadian House of Commons and Senate passed it.
The law is analogous to the Magnitsky Act signed by former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2012.
