Here’s a follow up on the Magnitsky visa denial story, in which we saw US Senator Benjamin Cardin personally petition Hillary Clinton for a visa ban for those involved in the death of the Hermitage lawyer whilst in prison last year.  Today’s RFE/RL states that these concerns have been seconded and pushed even further by congressmen Jim McGovern, who would introduce an even more punitive element to the measures, in that the investments of those concerned would be frozen and any business ventures in the US impeded:

“I think people who are involved in serious human rights violations — at a minimum — should not be allowed to travel to the United States, and other countries should do the same thing. And we should be figuring out a way to make sure that their assets are frozen,” he said.

“People who commit murder, and I think that’s what happened in that case, should not have the right to travel here and invest in business here and make money here and there should be a consequence. If we can’t get the consequence to happen in Russia, well then maybe there’s something we can do here [and] maybe other nations can do the same thing,” McGovern said.