The USA convicted Timchenko and Rotenbergs in the round of sanctions

The US authorities convicted the oligarchs of Gennady Timchenko and the Rotenberg brothers in the systematic bypass of sanctions. According to RBC, referring to the press release of the US Department of Finance, out of 34 people and firms entered on the eve of the sanctions list, 11 are associated with Timchenko or Rotenberg and punished for helping businessmen to circumvent sanctions.

The agency extended sanctions against Timchenko to the Swede of Sven Olson, Russian LLC Avia Group Terminal, LLC "Transsertvis" and offshores Lerm Trading, LTS Holding Ltd, Maples SA, Fentex Properties and White Seal Holdings. According to the American authorities, Olson and seven of these companies are controlled, provide material support or act in the interests of Timchenko and "his network". Companies included in the SDN list can no longer conduct business with US persons, and citizens - enter the United States.

Timchenko himself, whose fortune, was estimated at 10.7 billion dollars this year, was blacklisted with the US Treasury Blean in March 2014 as a co -owner of the Gunvor oil oil industry and a person from the near Circle of Vladimir Putin. The American authorities then said that Putin "has investments in Gunvor and he may have access to the company's funds."

Sven Olson was a member of the Gunvor board of directors. After Timchenko sold his share in the company in March 2014, Olson stopped being the director of Gunvor, but remained in the board of Volga Group controlled by Timchenko. The 72-year-old Swede is a member of the board of directors of the Liljedahl Group family industrial group, which says that he is also a director in companies such as IPP BV, Gunvor BV, SMEDBO, Camp of Scandinavia, Aller Media, Sovag (belongs to Russian Sogaz Family Office, Meerwind.

Volgogradneftemash, Mosoblbank and the Investment Republican Bank are included in the sanctions list as Arkady controlled by or Boris Rotenberg, the materials of the American Ministry of Finance notes. The Rotenberg brothers, after the introduction of sanctions against them in the spring of 2014, like Timchenko, reformatted their assets. The son of Arkady Rotenberg Igor received from the father of the Mostotrest campaign, Gazprom Busya and TPS Real Estate. The eldest son of Boris Rotenberg, Roman bought from his uncle, father and Gennady Timchenko a control package of shares in the Finnish Arena Events, but after he himself got into the sanctions list.

On December 22, the US Department of Finance has expanded the sanctions list by including Yandex money in it. A number of banks - Mosoblbank, Inrebank, the Krasnodar Investment Regional Bank, Genbank, as well as other subsidiaries of previously included in the list of credit organizations, were also sanctions. In addition, the list includes a number of Crimean enterprises, including the Yalta film studio and winery companies Massandra and New World.

The sanctions list of individuals has also been expanded. It includes the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaly Zakharchenko, ex-minister of education and science Dmitry Tabachnik, representative of the LPR in the contact group Vladislav Demoli, the "Minister of Foreign Affairs" of the DPR Alexander Kofman. In addition, the list included employees of the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and the Kalashnikov concern that had previously fallen under the sanctions.

“In order to maintain the effect of our measures, we need to periodically update our lists in order to protect the integrity of our sanctions. We do not consider today's actions as an escalation. This is a routine step to strengthen the implementation of existing measures,” said William Stevens Embassy in Russia.