ABOVE: Viacheslav Zhukov A Savannah resident, Viacheslav Zhukov, has been charged in a superseding indictment with export violations and false statements in connection with rifle scopes that he mailed from Savannah, Georgia, to Russia without the required license from the…
For some reason, there was a period of about a week during which I was not getting notifications of comments pending approval, so there were a number that I just discovered and approved. I am trying to figure out why…
Last week, we reported that there was some confusion relating to the new Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List inasmuch as OFAC said, in one place, that the prohibitions extended to dealing in equity and 90-day debt “of” and, in another place,…
ABOVE: Russian President Putin Meets with Vnesheconombank Chairman V.A. Dmitriev There is a significant ambiguity relating to the newly-announced Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List (“SSIL”) that we reported on yesterday and which placed Vnesheconombank and Gazprombank, among other Russian businesses, on…
ABOVE: Rosneft Headquarters Moscow UPDATED (7/17/14): Post corrected below to indicate that not every entity on the SSIL is subject to the “new equity” prohibition. Treasury today announced new Russia/Ukraine sanctions. All the sanctioned entities are listed at the end…