U.S. Slaps Fresh Sanctions On Individuals And Entity Associated With Putin's Regime In Russia

Washington D.C./12.08.23/Turan:  The Biden administration is widening its sanctions on individuals and entities associated with Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

Four individuals and one entity are the latest to be added to the U.S.' expanding list of sanctions, the State Department announced Friday afternoon.

"We are also imposing sanctions on the Russian Association of Employers the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), a Russian business organization involved in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy.  The organization has promoted import substitution and convened meetings to promote responses to sanctions," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

Separately, the U.S. is also imposing sanctions on 4 prominent members of Russia’s financial elite who have served on the supervisory board of the Alfa Group Consortium, one of the largest financial and investment conglomerates in Russia.

"The United States will continue to take all appropriate action to hold accountable those who enable and profit from Russia’s war against Ukraine," Blinken added.

Here are the newly-sanctioned individuals, according to the U.S. Treasury Department:

- Petr Aven, a Russian oligarch

- Mikhail Fridman, a Russian businessman

- German Khan, a Russian oligarch

- Alexey Kuzmichev, a Russian businessman

“Wealthy Russian elites should disabuse themselves of the notion that they can operate business as usual while the Kremlin wages war against the Ukrainian people,” Deputy secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, said in a statement.

Alex Raufoglu