The Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia is among them, Voice of America reports.

USA imposed sanctions against the Head of Investigative Committee of Russia and four other Kremlin figures, because US Department of State characterized them as «infamous violations of human rights».

Five citizens of Russia and two other men, allegedly associated with Hezbollah, were put under sanctions in compliance with the Magnitsky Act.

US representatives did not specify which concrete actions caused the imposition of sanctions. However, Spokesperson for US Department of State John Kirby said that «the question of inclusion of each additional name was decided after extensive research».

According to Kirby, five Russians played a role «in repressive machine of Russian law enforcement agencies, and, in addition, they were involved in infamous violation of human rights».

One of them is the Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, who supposedly conducts repression against dissidents.

Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, whom UK considers as the main suspects in poisoning Russian spy and Kremlin’s critic Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, were also put under sanctions.

The persons, included into the sanction list, are banned from entering the USA. Their assets in the USA are frozen, and US citizens are banned from conducting any financial transactions with them.

The Magnitsky Act is called after Russian attorney and corruption fighter Sergei Magnitsky, after he died in 2009 after spending one year in prison, having health issues.

The Russian investigators did not find signs of criminal offences, related to Magnitsky’s death.

However, the Department of State states that there are multiple evidence, pointing to the fact that Magnitsky was beaten in the prison cell, and that he did not receive any adequate medical assistance.