The US also sanctions four Russian businessmen

The US imposed new sanctions on Friday against four Russians linked to financial and investment conglomerate Alfa Group and a Russian business association, the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the latest moves targeting Moscow's financial elite over the war in Ukraine.

The Treasury said it targeted four men who served on the supervisory board of Alfa Group - Petr Olegivich Aven, Mikhail Maratovich Fridman, German Borisovich Khan and Alexey Viktorovich Kuzmichev, one of Russia's largest financial and investment conglomerates under anti-money laundering sanctions. of the country. service sector.

It also imposed sanctions on the Russian Association of Employers, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, he said.

"The wealthy Russian elites must give up the idea that they can operate as usual while the Kremlin wages war against the Ukrainian people ," Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in a statement.

The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment./ CNA

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