Posts Tagged ‘world check’

29
November 2010

DIFFERENT ANGLE

Are you Banking any of the 60 Russians that the EU wants to Sanction?

Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check

The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has recommended to the full European Parliament, in its Human Rights Report, that it adopt sanctions against sixty Russian officials, denying them visas for the Schengen area, and freeze their assets and bank accounts within the EU. These PEPs were reportedly implicated in the illegal detention, torture and death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last year, and the $230m tax rebate fraud involving Hermitage Capital Management.

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