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

Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder says whole class of British lawyers' making money out of lawsuits against journalists, dissidents and whistleblowers

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.