The US administration has imposed sanctions against 80% of the Russian banking sector, about 2.4 thousand individuals and legal entities have been subject to restrictions since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.
It is noted that under the US sanctions is “more than 80% of the Russian banking sector in terms of assets, including the 10 largest Russian banks.” The Ministry of Finance also notes that during the year “more than 1,000 foreign companies stopped or curtailed their activities in Russia.”
In addition, during the same period, the State Department and the Treasury blacklisted more than 200 individuals from Europe, Africa and Asia who provide assistance to the Russian Federation in “bypassing sanctions”. The American department has imposed sanctions on almost a fifth of the financial sector of Belarus. Also, about 115 ships and 19 aircraft fell under the restrictions of the department since February 24 last year. High-ranking representatives of the Ministry of Finance made more than 80 trips to 31 countries to “coordinate actions on international sanctions” against the Russian Federation.
The statement also notes that the international REPO task force froze the assets of the Russian Central Bank in the amount of about $ 300 billion. The group also “blocked or froze the assets of sanctioned Russians, luxury real estate, luxury goods” for “several billion dollars.”
The REPO group (Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs, a multilateral Western body engaged in the search and seizure of Russian-related property based on sanctions) includes the Ministries of Justice and Finance of Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States, France and Japan, as well as representatives of the European Commission.
Source: Rosbalt

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