Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion

Mr. Kevin McMeel:

I will come in on that. I will respectfully say there is a slight disparity between the submission made by Mr. Browder and what is intended by the Bill. As I understand it, Mr. Browder talked about - I do not mean this in a pejorative sense - the intention of the Magnitsky movement being to target the assets of gross human rights abusers worldwide, regardless of how those assets have been acquired. In fact, Mr Browder alluded to the fact it is often just too difficult to be able to pinpoint a particular asset derived specifically from an act of gross human rights abuse.

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