According to the press service, these sanctions are imposed against people linked with Magnitsky’s arrest and death - officers of the Butyrskaya prison and the Matrosskaya Tishina detention centre, police officers. The list has no names of Russian top-ranking officials.
The list of persons subject to sanctions includes Larisa Litvinova, Dmitry Kratov, Alexander Gauss, Fikret Tagiyev, Igor Alisov, Andrei Krechetov, and others.