KABUL (BNA) The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a new round of sanctions targeting Russian and Kremlin elites, oligarchs, and Russia’s political and national security leaders.
According to foreign media reports actions include designating regime elites and business executives who are associates and facilitators of the Russian regime, including three immediate family members of President Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitriy Sergeevich Peskov, Russian tycoon and Kremlin insider Viktor Vekselberg, and designated 12 members of the Russian State Duma, including Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin, who is also a permanent member of Russia’s Security Council.
The US Treasury Department stressed that guidelines have been issued to counter possible Russian attempts to use digital currency to circumvent sanctions.
US State Department spokesman Edward “Ned” Price said Friday night that sanctions were being imposed on members of the Russian parliament because of their role in Russia’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics from Ukraine.
The US Treasury Department on Friday night also imposed sanctions on three companies and two Russian citizens in connection with the North Korean missile program.
Meanwhile, a number of political analysts see the consequences of these sanctions on world and regional security as bad.
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