London, Feb. 24 (EFE). The British government today froze assets in the United Kingdom and banned entry to five Russian oligarchs, including Kirill Shamalov, Russia’s youngest billionaire and ex-husband of the president’s daughter. Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova.
The British Foreign Office has released the list of people and companies sanctioned for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in Parliament the imposition of these new sanctions, in addition to those introduced last day 22.
Among the businessmen and senior officials identified today, in addition to Shamalov – the director of the Sibur petrochemical company and a former government adviser – Peter Fradkov, director of Promsvyazbank, already under sanctions, and the son of Mikhail Fradkov, the former prime minister and head of the foreign intelligence service.
The assets of Denis Bortnikov, vice-president of VTB Bank, son of Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service, as well as the assets of Yuri Slyusar, director of United Aircraft Corporation, a major aircraft manufacturer in Russia, were also sanctioned. army.
Elena Georgieva, head of Novikombank, a subsidiary of the Rostec defense group, is another person under sanctions today, and to those identified on Tuesday were Boris, Igor Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, a friend of Putin’s.
Among the five defense sector companies sanctioned Thursday were Rostec and Uralvagonzavod, the world’s largest tank maker, affiliated with the former, according to a State Department statement.
The Tactical Missile Corporation, a supplier of air and naval missiles, and United Aircraft, which includes the main Russian aircraft manufacturers, are also on the list, as well as United Shipbuilding, the largest shipbuilder in Russia.
The State Department specifies that the sanctions against a total of 120 companies and partners close to the Russian regime are part of a coordinated response with the United States, the European Union, and other partners in the Group of Seven (the most advanced economies). EFE
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