USA made six state Duma deputies from the Crimea in the sanctions list
WASHINGTON, November 15. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. The U.S. Treasury Department has made six state Duma deputies elected from the Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, in the list of persons against which imposed personal sanctions. On Monday reported the press service of the Ministry.
In particular, the black list includes five deputies from the Crimea, Konstantin Bakharev, Ruslan Balbec, Andrei Kozenko, Svetlana Savchenko, Paul Speraw, and also the Deputy from Sevastopol Dmitry Belik. The Ministry recalled that in the new convocation of the state Duma from the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol also entered Natalia Poklonskaya and Mikhail Sheremet, but they “are already under sanctions”.
The US believes the data politicians involved in committing acts “aimed at undermining democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine and threatened its security, stability and sovereignty”. In a statement, the Ministry once again emphasized that the sanctions imposed in connection with the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, will remain in force until the return of the Peninsula under the control of Ukraine. In addition, the United States also do not recognize the past on the Peninsula elections to the state Duma.
Now any assets, accounts or property appeared in the list of the Ministry of Finance of persons in case of detection in the U.S., will be frozen, Americans are forbidden to carry with them any transactions.
Earlier in the sanctions list of the deputies is made by the European Union. The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky then called the incident a destructive step.