Ben Cardin: “I want you to know how deeply we feel that because of the importance of the Magnitsky Act and everything you have done…”

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.

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.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well