NewsEuropeThe United States sanctions more than 30 entities and 13 individuals, including former gymnast Alina Kabaeva

The United States sanctions more than 30 entities and 13 individuals, including former gymnast Alina Kabaeva

gymnast Alina Kabaeva – EUROPA PRESS / EUROPA PRESS / CONTACT PHOTO

The United States has issued new sanctions against Moscow in response to the war in Ukraine that include more than 30 entities and 13 individuals, including people from the innermost circle of the Kremlin, such as former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who many point to as a lover of the Russian president. , Vladimir Putin.

“The Treasury Department will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Russian elites and Kremlin enablers are held accountable for their complicity in a war that has cost countless lives,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. a statement.

The new sanctions have been extended to Andrei Guryev, founder and former deputy chairman of PhosAgro, a leading Russian chemical company. The businessman’s Cayman Islands-flagged yacht, the “Alfa Nero” — valued at $120 million — is on the new list as blocked property. Guryev has already been sanctioned by the UK.

Among other names, there is also Viktor Rashnikov, majority shareholder of one of the world’s largest steel producers, MMK, as well as two subsidiaries. This businessman has previously been sanctioned by Australia, Canada, the EU, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Also, from the elite closest to Putin, there is Alina Kabaeva, Olympic champion in Athens 2004 and the current head of the National Media Group; as well as Natalia Valerievna Popova, first deputy director of the Innopraktika Non-State Development Institute, a technology company based in Russia.

Finally, the Biden Administration has specified that the sanctions extend to the financial institution Joint Stock Company Promising Industrial and Infrastructure Technologies “for trying to evade the previous sanctions imposed on the Russian Direct Investment Fund.”

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