The United Kingdom again expanded the list of sanctions, including Tinkoff, Rosatom and AFK Sistema. In total, restrictions were imposed on 86 legal entities and natural persons.
According to the UK Treasury, sanctions were imposed on 18 May against AFK Sistema, PJSC Severstal, PJSC Polyus, PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works (Mechel Group), TMK, OMK, RMK and an international group FESCO.
Organizations of the financial sector did not escape the restrictions either, in addition to Tinkoff, the sanctions affected Rosbank, Metallinvestbank, RRDB.
London also added to the DOM.RF list a number of Rosatom structures: Atomflot, Rener and others.
individuals
Personally, the UK sanctioned members of the boards of Russian Railways, Sovcomflot and Transneft. Among them are officials, for example, Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, as well as First Deputy Minister of Energy Pavel Sorokin and Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev. Of the independents, Gennady Shmal, Valery Shantsev and others were included in the list. The restrictions also affected businessman Igor Altushkin and some top managers of Gazprom Neft.
The new restrictive measures are designed to increase economic pressure on Russia. As stated in the document, the frozen assets can only be released if “Russia agrees to compensate the damage caused to Ukraine.”
Earlier, the EU already activated the tenth package of anti-Russian sanctions related to the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine. In February, Tinkoff, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank and the National Wealth Fund fell under EU blocking sanctions.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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