News

Weekly Roundup: Putin Lands on Western Blacklists, US and UK Impose Banking Sanctions on Russia, and More

The EU, U.K. and U.S. plan to blacklist Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in response to the Kremlin's full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, CNN reported. More U.S. and U.K. officials also imposed sanctions on Russia's financial sector and largest lenders, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Promsvyazbank, a state-owned, military-focused Russian bank that U.S. and U.K. officials blacklisted this week, has been the subject of several suspicious activity reports filed by Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays and other financial institutions since at least 2011, BuzzFeed News reported. More Ukrainian officials criticized the EU's opposition to revoking Russia's access...

TO READ THE FULL STORY