Labour has accused ministers of giving a “waiver to a warlord” after the Government allowed sanctioned Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to file a lawsuit against a British journalist
“There is a delegated framework whereby decisions on legal fees for persons designated under all the sanctions regimes are routinely taken by senior civil servants. I want to be clear on that,” the minister told MPs.
“We are not aware of any case of legal fees under any of the sanctions regimes being taken by a minister.” He added: “I do think that the right to legal representation is a fundamental tenet of our democracy and that can mean that individuals and persons who we – and I’m not commenting on the specific case – but it can mean that individuals and persons, who we find distasteful, therefore have a right to legal representation.
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