Lithuania is ready to make exceptions for payments for the transit of goods to the Kaliningrad region. At the same time, each application will be evaluated by the Republican Financial Crimes Investigation Service. This is reported by “Interfaxon Thursday, August 4th.
“The Financial Crimes Investigation Service is guided by directly applicable EU regulations, explanations of the European Commission, which indicate that sanctions do not apply to the transit of goods by rail between the mainland of the Russian Federation and the Kaliningrad region and vice versa, under the conditions provided for by the EC,” the explanation says. departments.
Exceptions will be allowed, including for persons under EU sanctions or Lithuania’s transatlantic partners. The service conveyed its position to the Lithuanian departments in order to clarify whether banks would violate international sanctions against Russia and Belarus if they service payments to the state-owned Lithuanian Railways.
The statement of the Minister of Transport of Lithuania, Marius Skuodis, about the impossibility of influencing Siauliai Bank, which refused to work with Russian clients, is a beautiful pretext for stopping Kaliningrad rail transit. About it
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“> declared head of the region Anton Alikhanov.