United States i Great Britain announced a new wave of sanctions against Russia. According to Reuters, the sanctions concern: illegal gold tradefrom which the income allows Vladimir Putin continue hostilities against Ukraine.
The UK government has frozen the assets of four people it believes were involved in gold smuggling, as well as one who bought Russian gold worth more than 300 million dollars (over PLN 1.2 billion), thus providing income to the Russian authorities, the agency said.
New sanctions for Russia. A few days after the gang was broken up
“Illegal gold is an attack on the legal trade in a valuable commodity, fuels corruptionundermines the rule of law and perpetuates human rights violations,” it said British Foreign Office in the issued statement.
It was added that this practice is used Russia – launders money obtained from gold trading, avoids sanctions, thus supporting Putin's war plans.
The announcement of further sanctions came a week after Great Britain announced that in cooperation with the USA she broke up the gangwho was involved in money laundering and helped wealthy Russians bypass sanctions.
Reuters recalled that many Western countries imposed sanctions in the form of a ban on the import of Russian military already in 2022, when Moscow she attacked Ukraine on a full scale. However, as indicated, Russia has since found new markets allowing it to sell the raw material.