The government hopes the sanctions “disrupt key actors in the Wagner Group’s financial network and international structure.”
Just days after a short-lived rebellion by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group, the United States Treasury announced sanctions targeting four companies that have “engaged in illicit gold dealings to fund the Wagner Group to sustain and expand its armed forces,” along with one person the department says has “acted or purported to act for” Prigozhin.... [+]
Military District in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Just days after a short-lived rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group, the United States Treasury announced sanctions targeting four companies that have “engaged in illicit gold dealings to fund the Wagner Group.
The targeted companies are in the Central African Republic, United Arab Emirates and Russia, and the targeted person—Andrey Nikolayevich Ivanov—is an executive of the Wagner Group who has been central to the group’s activities in Mali, the departmentThe sanctions—which join a number of other sanctions against entities and people that support Wagner’s activity—prohibit any transactions by the U.S.
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