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A former Russian official who until July 2019 served as governor of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea used his own name to open an account at Halifax in London in February 2023, six years after the U.K. and EU blacklisted him, prosecutors have alleged. The former official, Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, his wife, Ekaterina, 47, and brother Alexei, 47, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday to answer to charges of sanctions evasion and money laundering after allegedly using funds from the account at Halifax and other sources to buy a luxury car, pay tuition and make other expenditures in violation of...