The Barack Obama administration has prepared a “Magnitsky list” of 18 names to be submitted to the US Congress for approval. reports this Reuters .

The list includes 16 names of officials and security officials who, according to the American side, are directly involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center, as well as two persons involved who are not directly related to this story.

All people on the list will be barred from entering the United States and their American bank accounts will be frozen.

Previously, congressmen who promoted the Magnitsky Act had already expressed fears that the White House might reduce the list as much as possible. The Obama administration insisted that only those officials whose connection to the death in jail of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was supported by “irrefutable and significant evidence” should remain in the document.

The first version of the “Magnitsky list,” compiled in 2010 by US Senate member Benjamin Cardin, included 60 names. Later, the White House was asked to include 240 and then 280 people on the list. The latest version of the list was handed over to the Obama administration by one of the authors of the Magnitsky Act, James McGovern. It included the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, the Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Chaika, and his deputy, Viktor Grin. Handing over the list, the congressman expressed concern that the White House might reduce it, thereby softening the effect of the Magnitsky Act. In this case, McGovern proposed passing a tougher version of the document through Congress.

Russia, in turn, promised to publish a “black list” of American citizens who will be prohibited from entering the Russian Federation. According to unconfirmed reports, it may include more than 100 names.

The “Magnitsky list” will include 18 people