Wild animals are dying off rapidly. A new law could halt this destruction | Ben Caldecott

A UK version of the Magnitsky Act would curb illegal wildlife trade and habitat annihilation, leaving perpetrators with nowhere to hideThe Magnitsky Act allows the US to sanction individuals implicated in human rights abuses anywhere in the world. It is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in suspicious circumstances in a Moscow prison after identifying corruption by Russian tax officials on a massive scale.Foreign secretary Boris Johnson and home secretary Amber Rudd have agreed that Britain is to introduce a UK version, which could authorise the imposition of financial and immigration sanctions based on allegations of serious criminal misconduct in the absence of a criminal conviction. Continue reading...