The US Treasury Department hit Russian oligarchs and their companies with a host of new sanctions today, zeroing in on the country’s energy sector and cronies of President Vladimir Putin. Among those blacklisted: seven oligarchs, 12 companies and 17 senior government officials, including metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, who is tied in media reports to Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Here’s a look at the actual documents, fresh today from Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control:
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Document of the Day: US Blacklist of Russian Oligarchs
by , Global Investigative Journalism Network
April 6, 2018