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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger in Washington

Calls for US to issue visa bans for UK lawyers enabling Russian oligarchs

Bill Browder
Bill Browder addresses the Helsinki Commission on 6 April 2022 about how to counter tactics oligarchs use to launder their money and stifle dissent. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

The anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder is calling on the US to issue visa bans against British lawyers who he has accused of “enabling” Russian oligarchs.

The US-born financier, an outspoken and longtime critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, has said that installing such a ban would strike at the heart of what he described as a persistent problem of oligarchs using the UK legal system against journalists and whistleblowers, tying them up in expensive lawsuits.

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