US sanctions Russians suspected of circumventing sanctions
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS
- In Brief
22 Apr 2022
by Alex Teddy
On April 21 the US said the sanctions were on individuals and entities that have been evading sanctions. On the list is the media mogul Konstantin Malofeyev, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Ksenia Yudayeva and a former Deputy Prime Minister. The US has introduced blocking sanctions on Transkapitalbank. The US accused the bank of creating an online financial transfer system to replicate SWIFT.The US sanctioned Bitriver AG, which is a cryptocurrency mining company, and 10 of its subsidiaries.There were also visa banks on 652 Russian and Belarusian citizens. Russia denounced the sanctions.
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