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Related: About this forumRussia puts British Putin critic Bill Browder on Interpol wanted list
Source: The Observer
Russia puts British Putin critic on Interpol wanted list
Vladimir Putin said to have agreed to move against Bill Browder, who has battled Moscow over Magnitsky Act
Mark Townsend
Sunday 22 October 2017 00.03 BST
Russia has placed a prominent British businessman on the Interpol wanted list. President Vladimir Putin is understood to have sanctioned the move against Bill Browder, who has led an international campaign against Russia over the killing of the jailed Moscow lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
On Wednesday Canada became the latest country to pass a Magnitsky Act, targeting officials who have committed gross violations of human rights. The move infuriated Putin, who accused Canada of playing unconstructive political games and later name-checked Browder for pursuing what the Russian president described as illegal activity.
On Saturday it emerged that Russia had placed the US-born British citizen on Interpols list, exploiting a loophole that lets countries unilaterally place individuals on its database used to request an arrest. Browder said he was alerted to the move by an email from the US department of homeland security, stating his global entry status had been revoked. Further calls confirmed he had been added to Interpols list via an arrest demand, known as a diffusion.
Moscow has a habit of using Interpol against its enemies and has previously used the global police organisation to pursue what many western governments view as a vendetta against Browder. Putin tried three times between 2012 and 2015 to get Interpol to issue arrest orders against Browder, but failed to convince the organisation that it did not have political motives.
The Council of Europe last year criticised Russian attempts to seek Browders arrest through Interpol, calling the efforts abuses of the system.
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Vladimir Putin said to have agreed to move against Bill Browder, who has battled Moscow over Magnitsky Act
Mark Townsend
Sunday 22 October 2017 00.03 BST
Russia has placed a prominent British businessman on the Interpol wanted list. President Vladimir Putin is understood to have sanctioned the move against Bill Browder, who has led an international campaign against Russia over the killing of the jailed Moscow lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
On Wednesday Canada became the latest country to pass a Magnitsky Act, targeting officials who have committed gross violations of human rights. The move infuriated Putin, who accused Canada of playing unconstructive political games and later name-checked Browder for pursuing what the Russian president described as illegal activity.
On Saturday it emerged that Russia had placed the US-born British citizen on Interpols list, exploiting a loophole that lets countries unilaterally place individuals on its database used to request an arrest. Browder said he was alerted to the move by an email from the US department of homeland security, stating his global entry status had been revoked. Further calls confirmed he had been added to Interpols list via an arrest demand, known as a diffusion.
Moscow has a habit of using Interpol against its enemies and has previously used the global police organisation to pursue what many western governments view as a vendetta against Browder. Putin tried three times between 2012 and 2015 to get Interpol to issue arrest orders against Browder, but failed to convince the organisation that it did not have political motives.
The Council of Europe last year criticised Russian attempts to seek Browders arrest through Interpol, calling the efforts abuses of the system.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/21/russia-british-businessman-bill-browder-interpol
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Russia puts British Putin critic Bill Browder on Interpol wanted list (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2017
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TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)1. Interpol - they're international in Europe...
Will Interpol go after this critic only in Russia and Russian satellite countries?
DK504
(3,847 posts)2. With his marching orders from Putin
Hair Twittler will try and arrest him.
Irish_Dem
(47,928 posts)3. Hair Twittler, hilarious. :)