All news on the topic: Sanctions

A freeze on assets exceeding $7 billion owned by sanctioned Russian businessman Roman Abramovich will remain in effect, following court rulings in Jersey.

At the end of January, several outlets released an interview with Iskandar Tursunov, the Chairman of the Board and principal shareholder of Octobank. Although the discussion offered few substantive insights, Tursunov appeared to be attempting to improve the bank’s public perception amid a recent rise in negative commentary.

The military junta in Mali, strongly supported by Russian mercenaries, is close to losing power.

Buying cocaine on a Friday night in Britain could be inadvertently funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.

Emails leaked from a Kremlin-backed legal aid foundation reveal that funding is being allocated to pro-Russia activities in Ukraine under the pretense of providing legal aid, as reported by RFE/RL’s Schemes project.

The coordinated action targets Media Land and Aeza Group, five executives, and seven companies—including entities in the U.K., Serbia, and Uzbekistan—for supporting ransomware operations and other cybercrime.

Sanctioned Ukrainian Businesswoman, involved in the case of laundering 5 billion UAH, has become a co-owner of new companies in the UK and Poland.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case against Swiss entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, alleging that he assisted the aggressor state by helping establish a scheme that allowed Russia’s military-industrial sector to bypass sanctions.

A scandalous trader from Baku with a Russian passport, Maltese citizenship, and residency in the UAE continues to facilitate the circumvention of sanctions in the transportation of oil from Russia.

Business re-registration in occupied Crimea: How sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolayev, through “Alef-Vynal” and Cypriot companies, paid taxes to Russia for years

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and damaging energy infrastructure in three separate regions, according to Ukrainian officials.

A sanctioned Iranian tycoon accused by the U.K. government of funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) owns a 33.7 million pounds mansion—worth about $52.8 million at the 2014 exchange rate, when he bought it—on an exclusive London street, OCCRP has found.

German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration lifted international sanctions on Milorad Dodik — the pro-Russian leader of the Serb-dominated region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska — as well as on his children, dozens of allies, and their companies.

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has purchased Russian oil transported on vessels that are listed under sanctions, according to an analysis by the Financial Times using satellite imagery, shipping data, and customs records.

Iran appears to be stepping up the rebuilding of its ballistic missile program, despite the reintroduction last month of United Nations sanctions that ban arms sales to the country and ballistic missile activity.

Fresh US measures against Russian energy giants are tightening the seaborne supply of oil, pushing Brent higher as traders price in risk.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Ilya Sorokin, a prison doctor exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL’s “Schemes” program in July as having systematically humiliated, tortured, and denied medical assistance to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on several Balkan-based crime figures and gangs linked to “illegal migration to the U.K.,” and members of an international network financing people-smuggling operations.

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a sharply worded resolution condemning what it called an “escalating wave of repression” in Serbia, urging targeted sanctions against senior officials accused of violence and human rights abuses amid mass anti-government protests.

The EU has been criticized for pausing sanctions against Israel’s government in response to Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as the fragile ceasefire came under threat.