Biden's latest Russia sanctions mark new target: the families of Putin's inner circle

[orangecrush]

Washington CNN —
The new US sanctions triggered by Russian’s latest actions in Ukraine included targets that in the past have gone untouched: the family members of those in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

By designating the sons of two powerful players close to the Russian President, the Biden administration sent a clear signal that its target list for individual sanctions extends beyond public officials and financiers as part of a new effort to shut down pathways for top Putin associates to shield their wealth by giving it to family members.


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Denis Bortnikov and Vladimir Kiriyenko, both designated for individual sanctions by the Treasury Department on Tuesday, hold their own prominent positions in Russian business. But both will now have any US-held assets frozen and be barred from dealing with any US persons solely because their fathers serve as Putin’s domestic intelligence chief and as one of Putin’s closest advisers, respectively.

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The sanctions are aimed at “powerful Russians in Putin’s inner circle believed to be participating in the Russian regime’s kleptocracy and their family members,” according to the Treasury Department.



https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/russian-sanctions-families-putin-inner-circle/index.html

[Drum]

1. Next it'll be the mistresses...

[orangecrush]

3. Just like Trump's Family

Exactly.

[agingdem]

2. money talks and when the uber wealthy

see their hard earned multi-million dollar "investments" turn pear shape, they squeal...it's one thing to fear Putin, it's quite another to go from a ten thousand square foot mansion to a two bedroom/one bath squat...enough shedding of the big dollars and they'll storm the Federal Assembly

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[dalton99a]

5. Russian oligarchs should be expelled from Western countries

Kick them back to Russia