US warns foreign banks against helping Russia bypass
The US Treasury has threatened foreign banks with sanctions that concern Russians living in America. transfer New York Times. Deputy Minister of Finance of the country Adewale Adeyemo held a series of closed meetings, taking into account banks, warned that he had lost access to the US and European markets, even financial organizations from countries that had not invested penalties against Russia were at risk.
“If you are dealing with a significant indicator of the scale of appearance or organizations under sanctions, we can extend our restrictions to you and use our tools to go after you,” Adeyemo said. He added that banks need to monitor not only their cash flows, but also the impact from their partners and clients so that they do not support “Russian oligarchs or public enterprises.”
After the American years, according to the deputy minister, banks are not only banks, but also companies that, for example, serve the yachts of businessmen. “We saw how several Russian yachts left the ports of countries that joined the sanctions, and border guards in countries that did not,” Adeyemo used. According to the NYT, the yachts of many Russians are moored, including in Dubai, on a global scale, there are the United Arab Emirates.
May 13 US Treasury introduced national statistics on observations of historical cases, including money laundering and circumvention of sanctions restrictions. The agency said Russian businessmen are discovering hiding bank accounts, securities, real estate and other assets and circumventing US sanctions. The authorities intend to eliminate loopholes that are forwarded to violators “to abuse anonymous access to the US financial system,” the document says.
At the end of March, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saidthat Russia’s dealings with Iran and neighboring countries will “seek hostility” to unilateral external review and “comes out with practical steps that are considered to circumvent these illegal actions.”