Benjamin L. Cardin: “I think that technical assistance will be very important.”

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.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.