Now the document should support the Senate of the country. After that, he will go to the signature of the Governor-General of Canada.

As reported by CBC News, thus, the lower house of parliament approved the earlier amendments to the document, due to which the document was forced to return again to the House of Commons. The document was submitted for consideration in 2016 by Senator from the Conservative Party of Canada Reinell Endrichek.

The document, entitled "On Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials," is an analog of the "Magnitsky Law" adopted in the United States in 2012. It provides for the freezing of assets and the abolition of visas for foreign officials convicted of human rights violations.

At the same time, the Russian Federation has already promised that it will not leave this "confrontational act".

Recall, Sergei Magnitsky - lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund - was arrested by the Russian authorities in 2008 in the case of the tax evasion of the fund.

The head of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, argued that the pursuit of Magnitsky is due to the fact that he disclosed the corruption scheme for withdrawing funds from the Russian budget.

Magnitsky died in jail in 2009. Browder, after his death, launched an international campaign aimed at punishing those responsible for the theft of taxes and the death of a lawyer.

As reported URA-Inform, the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose sanctions against 32 Russian officials involved in the criminal prosecution of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund Sergei Magnitsky.