Ben Cardin: “Mr. Putin does what he does because he gets a lot of money. Oligarchs support his operations, his corruption.”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We are going to do something about this.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.