Intressant intervju på NPR med affärsmannen Bill Browder, vars advokat Magnitsky dog i ryskt förvar. Browder känner väl till den ryska advokaten Natalia Veselnitskaya Trump Jr mötte. Kanske kan Magnitsky Act vara en anledning till mötet.
Vladimir Putin is infuriated by the Magnitsky case. Why is he infuriated by it? It’s because he steals a lot of money himself. He ends up terrorizing people himself. And he keeps that money he’s stolen offshore. And the Magnitsky Act basically imposes sanctions on people who do those types of things. And so this puts Putin’s personal money at risk. So he made the repeal of the Magnitsky Act his single most important foreign policy priority. And if you speak to any Russians in the opposition who are against Putin they’ll tell you that the Magnitsky Act is the thing that most upsets him, most infuriates him and he wants changed.
I dag har det också framkommit att den ryska advokaten inte var ensam ryss på mötet med Trump Jr. Även en rysk fd expert på kontraspionage ska enligt NBC ha medverkat.