The US sanctions the Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin and another dozen companies and partners of the Kremlin
The United States Department of the Treasury has announced this Thursday the umpteenth package of sanctions against personalities and companies close to the Kremlin and the Russian president, Vladimir Putinamong them the oligarch Vladimir Potanin, in response to the Russian aggression of Ukraine.
The Treasury has sanctioned along with Potanin, “one of the richest men in Russia, forty other people, including Kremlin officials, such as the first deputy prime minister, Andrei Belousov, and the deputy prime ministers Dimitro Chernishenko, Sergei Franko, Oleg Belozherov and Oleksi Sazanov.
Likewise, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) It has blacklisted another 18 entities related to Russian financial services in an attempt to “isolate” Moscow from global markets, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson has explained.