Russia’s Deputy PM Khusnullin, Yunarmiya, and Usmanov-related businesses are on new US sanctions list

This was reported by the US Treasury Department.

On April 12, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) further restricted Russia's access to the international system through intermediaries and their businesses.

"The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, is targeting the facilitation network of Alisher Usmanov, who is subject to sanctions in multiple jurisdictions. Today’s action also includes designations to reinforce existing measures and further disrupt Russia’s importation of critical technologies used in its war against Ukraine," the press service writes.

In total, 25 individuals and 29 legal entities with points of interaction in 20 jurisdictions were sanctioned. These include entities working in the defence sector of the Russian economy, as well as those supporting the war against Ukraine and additional structures associated with Rosatom.

"As the Kremlin seeks ways around the expansive multilateral sanctions and export controls imposed on Russia for its war against Ukraine, the United States and our allies and partners will continue to disrupt evasion schemes that support Putin on the battlefield," said Brian E. Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

In particular, the following persons were added to the sanctions list:

• Valery Kazikaev, a member of Metalloinvest's Central Executive Committee;
• Vakhtang Kocharov, Nazim Efendiev, Vladimir Streshinskiy, heads of a number of foreign companies owned by Alisher Usmanov;
• Nathan Viner, Alisher Usmanov's stepson;
• Andriy Skoch's family - father, Vladimir Skoch, and daughter, Varvara Skoch.

Among the legal entities on the blacklist are also companies associated with Usmanov, most of which are part of the oligarch's "Cyprus network." Rusatom Overseas, a Rosatom company responsible for the construction of nuclear science and technology centres abroad, was also sanctioned.

• On April 8, Biden extended the first sanctions against Russia for another year.

• The US also decided to send delegations of officials to Europe to convince businesses to leave Russia.

• The United Kingdom imposed sanctions on relatives of Russian oligarchs Kerimov, Skoch and Yevtushenkov, as well as Viktor Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko.