Trump removed corrupt international businessman from Global Magnitsky Act sanctions list Jan. 15

[highplainsdem]

Wonder how much of a bribe the Trump family received for this?


Story from South African paper:


https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-24-departing-trump-lifted-us-sanctions-against-controversial-israeli-businessman-dan-gertler/

Bill Browder, who led the campaign for the adoption of the Global Magnitsky Act under which Gertler was sanctioned in 2017, said on Sunday he was “shocked” by the removal of Gertler and 33 of his companies and associates from the list on January 15.

Browder originally conceived the Magnitsky sanctions legislation as punishment for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the officials who allegedly murdered Browder’s Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. The legislation was later widened to cover all nationalities.

He told Daily Maverick he would lobby for the new US Biden administration to reverse Trump’s decision on Gertler.

“Gertler was one of the big success stories under the Global Magnitsky regime. And it seems odd that they would just waive sanctions entirely on all of his entities and activities.” He said this was the first time that someone sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act for corruption had been removed from the list.

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Gertler is an Israeli citizen and a billionaire businessman who made hundreds of millions of dollars by buying mining assets from the DRC state at greatly discounted prices, when former President Joseph Kabila was still in office, and then selling them on at huge profits, according to the US Treasury.

Bill Browder thread on Twitter, which links to the story above, starts with this tweet:

Link to tweet

[secondwind]

1. Sneaky bastard........

He knows what he did was wrong, and decided to keep this to himself.... what a despicable man