If the administration of President Joe Biden wants to damage the Russian oligarchs in a forceful way with the intention of curbing the actions of his counterpart Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, he should “hit them hard” and “hit many more”, some said US officials and kleptocracy experts to the USA TODAY newspaper. opulent life) with the Russian president has led the American president to “hit” some of them through sanctions as a response to the current military intervention of Ukraine by the Kremlin.
Days ago Biden and his national security team announced two rounds of sanctions that would cause severe economic and political hardship for President Vladimir Putin, as well as major state-owned banks and some of his inner circle.
The sanctions, which he indicated Biden, will also be applied by two thirds of the world, they are aimed at five people in particular, according to the aforementioned medium.
The first was addressed to three children of Vladimir Putin’s associates, a wife and three senior bank officials; they are followed, according to the White House, by Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The sanctions exercised by the US president are nothing more than an effort to increase pressure against Putin and a A direct message to the oligarchs that they cannot protect their money from the sanctions, as revealed by Biden, who has asked to review the issue in a few more weeks: “Let’s have a conversation in a month or so to see if they are working.” .
This is the list of people sanctioned by the United States this week: Aleksandr Vasilievich Bortnikov , director of the feared Russian Federal Security Service or FSB, the successor to the KGB, and his son Dennis; Petr Mikhailovich Fradkov, chairman and CEO of PSB, Promsvyazbank, which the Biden administration says finances Russian military activities; Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff of the presidential office.
The sanctions announced by the United States, although they are strong, could lack weight for the rich Russians, since measures are being studied in Russia to legalize cryptocurrencies.
Russian millionaires, who have already been subject to direct sanctions, could circumvent them by choosing to use cryptocurrencies, which use blockchain technology to keep transactions anonymous, and so they could continue making lavish purchases without their movements being tracked.
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