Washington (AP) – Treasury Department on Friday planned to impose more than 500 new restrictions on Russia and its war machine, as the US has vowed to maintain its financial pressure on Moscow with a war that entered its third fierce year.
The sanctions represent the largest single installment of fines since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. They fall on the heels of the new arrests declared by the Department of Justice and a series of prosecutors on Thursday, including Russian traders, including heads of the second largest bank in Russia.
The Biden administration is demanding a demonstration of its unwavering support for Ukraine, even though Republican MPs associated with former President Donald Trump are preventing important US military aid.
The White House promised big sanctions in response to last week’s death of opposition leader Alexi Navalani, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Arctic Penal Colony. Biden on Thursday said after a meeting with Navalani’s wife and daughter that the ban would be “against Putin, who is responsible for his death.”
The planned sanctions were previewed by two administration officials who spoke on Friday on the condition of anonymity before their release. Additional sanctions are also expected from the state department.
Thousands of restrictions have been imposed on Russian officials, traders, banks, companies and entire industries since the war started.
Among the Department of Justice, the cases announced on Thursday include allegations against the approved Russian banker Andrei Costin in New York and “two of his two US-based stories”. The facilitator, Vadim Wolfson and Ganon Bond were arrested on Thursday.
The state -owned VTB Bank has long been accused of engaging in a plan to remove restrictions and loot money to support two superchats. He is also accused of trying to avoid restrictions by hiding his ownership of a house in Espane, Colorado, along with two other people. The prosecution says Volphson and Bond arranged to sell the house and provide Costin with about $ 12 million from sale.
The department’s Task Force Cleptocapture co-director Michael Khu said on a call with reporters that the announcement meant to send a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin that “we are not going away” and “We can play along with long games” continue to be so long.
The CleptocPature Task Force implements economic sanctions within the US imposed on Russia and its billionaires.
The Department of Justice says that in the last two years it has secured court orders for restraint, seizure, and assets of about $ 700 million and has accused over 70 people of violating restrictions and export controls.
US officials said on Thursday that the United States is capable of transferring more than $ 5 million seized Russian property to Europe in support of Ukraine’s rescue, US authorities said on Thursday. But the process of justifying each seizure of alleged illegal property in court is a laborious one by law, playing out over the years.
Attorney General Merick B. Garland said in a statement, “The Department of Justice is more committed to cut off the flow of illegal funds that are promoting Putin’s war and who continue to enable it, to justify them,” Attorney General Merry B. Garland said in a statement.
Ukraine’s US and other colleagues expected to cripp and separate Russia’s economy with succession of targeting sanctions that targeted their financial sector and revenue sources, including oil sales. But Putin has worked to blunt the impact of international sanctions with Iran and others, so that the International Monetary Fund reported to Russia’s economy at an unexpectedly healthy speed.
In addition, on Thursday, an prosecution in Washington, DC was ignored, in which Vladislav Osipov was charged, which was approved the bank’s fraud, which was associated with the operation of the 255-Foot luxury boating owned by Vilasita Victor Vicaselberg of the Russian elite, Victor Vacaselberg. A Russian National Osipov lives in Switzerland. The State Department has given a reward of up to $ 1 million for his leading information for his arrest or punishment.
The prosecution recognizes the superchat as a tango, which belongs to an accepted Russian with the intimate relationship of the Kremlin, which has been confiscated at the US government’s request after the US government’s invasion of Ukraine.
In Florida, the Russian-Ukrainian metals were motivated to try to overcome the sanctions that prevent them from trade in the United States. It is believed that he and Costin are in Moscow and thus we are unlikely to face justice.
In addition, in Florida, a civil powerful complaint was filed against two luxury Kondos in Bal Harbor, owned by Russia-based construction company’s co-owner Russian businessman Victor Perevlov, which was approved for the construction of a highway in Crimea, a Ukrane proceeds in 2014.
And in Georgia, Felic Medvedev blamed earlier this month to help more than $ 150 million from Russian customers through bank accounts. Medvedev, a Russian citizen, lives in Bufford, Georgia.
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