New sanctions package The White House officially announced on Thursday the “foam” of the Russian oligarchs in the attempt of the American president Joe Biden to put pressure on the Russian president Vladimir Putin for the invasion in Ukraine.
The new list of people described as “Putin’s comrades and members of their families” will be cut off from the US financial system, their assets in the US will be frozen and their assets will be frozen according to the White House.
The US imposes as well as sanctions on Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peshkov, whom the White House describes as “the main” supplier “of Putin’s propaganda.”
Putin’s close ally, Alisher Usmanov, “one of Russia’s richest men,” according to the White House, is also being targeted, and his private jet will be confiscated. He is “one of the richest people in Russia,” according to the White House.
“The United States and governments around the world will work to track down and freeze the assets of Russian elites and their families in our respective jurisdictions – yachts, luxury apartments, money and more. their profits, “warns Washington.
The persons subject to sanctions are:
-Nikolai Tokarev (with his wife Galina, his daughter Maya and his two luxury real estate companies)
-Boris Rothenberg (with his wife Karina and sons Roman and Boris)
-Arcadi Rotenberg (with sons Pavel and Igor and daughter Lilia)
-Sergey Semezov (with his wife Gekaterina, his son Stanislav and his stepdaughter Anastasia)
-Igor Suvalov (along with his five companies, his wife Olga, his son Evgeny and his company and jet, and his daughter Maria and her company)
-Gevgeny Prigogine (with his three companies, his wife Polina, Lyubov’s daughter and his son Pavel)
– Nmitry Peshkov, Putin’s press secretary
-Alyser Usmanov (His superyacht, one of the largest in the world just confiscated from Germany, and his private jet, one of Russia’s largest privately owned aircraft)
The US will also impose visa restrictions on 19 oligarchs and 47 members of their families and their close associates. The US Treasury Department will also impose sanctions on Russian institutions that have set up misinformation mechanisms.
The White House has previously commented that sanctions against Russian oligarchs have intended to exert pressure to the Russian president and that Thursday’s list of names will not be the last.
“One of the big factors we’re looking at is the (oligarchs’) proximity to President Putin,” said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki when asked how the United States had chosen whom to impose sanctions on. “We want them to feel the pressure, we want the people around them to feel the pressure,” he said.
cnn.com
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