UK government expanded a list of Russian individuals and legal entities subject to sanctions. Now it has entrepreneurs Vladimir Potanin and Said Gutseriev, the head of HKF Bank (Home Credit Bank) Ivan Tyryshkin, as well as the governor of the Kemerovo region Sergey Tsivilev and his wife Anna.
The UK also imposed sanctions against the Moscow Industrial Bank and R-Style Softlab, a banking software development company.
The sanctions include a ban on entry into the UK, an asset freeze and a restriction on doing business with organizations that are associated with people from the “black list”.
The governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, is the husband of Anna Tsivileva, a cousin of President Vladimir Putin. This is stated in investigation publications “Agency”. According to journalists, during the transition to the civil service, the husband transferred to Anna his share in one of the largest coal companies in Russia – Kolmar.
Earlier, the British authorities included in their sanctions list the chairman of the board of directors of the National Media Group Alina Kabaeva and her grandmother Anna Zatsepilina, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, the Russian children’s ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, as well as the occupation authorities of the Kherson region.
In addition, the British government banned the provision of financial and brokerage services to Russia, it is also prohibited to import European currencies and pounds sterling into the country, a number of goods and technologies for the oil refining industry.