• UK announces new Russia sanctions: Immediate asset freeze on all major Russian banks

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24 tháng 2 2022

UK announces new Russia sanctions: Immediate asset freeze on all major Russian banks

UK PM Boris Johnson announced a raft of new sanctions against Russia in the UK parliament:

  • UK to impose an asset freeze against all major Russian banks, including an immediate asset freeze against VTB. 
  • UK to bring in legislation to prohibit the Russian state from raising sovereign debt. 
  • UK on Tuesday to bring in legislation to prohibit all major Russian companies from raising finance of UK markets. 
  • UK to introduce legislation to limit deposits that Russian nationals can hold in UK bank accounts. 
  • UK will look to extend the full range of sanctions measures against Belarus.
  • UK to sanction over 100 individuals, entities and subsidiaries.
  • UK to ban aeroflot aircraft from landing in the UK. 
  • UK to immediately suspend or prohibit all dual-use export licenses to Russia. 
  • UK to lay legislation to prohibit a wide range of high tech exports to Russia, plus exports to the extractive industry. 

On SWIFT, Johnson said that nothing is off of the table. 

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