The US Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions against 40 legal entities and individuals from 9 countries, including Russia. Ella Pamfilova, head of the CEC, was included in the sanctions list among others.
21 citizens of the Russian Federation fell under the sanctions of the department with the wording “for violation of human rights”.
Among them:
- representatives of the presidential administration Oleg Nesterov and Evgeny Kim, whom the US Treasury Department accuses of creating “filtration points” in the Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine. The department claims that they, in particular, participated in the “filtering” of officials of the Mariupol city administration. Mr. Nesterov also allegedly helped organize a referendum on the accession of the Zaporozhye region to the Russian Federation.
- Marina Seredawhich, according to the US Department of the Treasury, worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR and participated in the management of “filtration points” in the Donetsk region.
- Official from the administration of the DPR Alexey Muratovwhom the United States also accuses of coordinating the work of “filtration points” on the territory of the republic.
- The State Department also sanctioned Ochura-Suge Mongusha and Lyudmila Zaitsev. Mr. Mongush is accused by the US of torturing citizens of Ukraine, and Mrs. Zaitseva of “forced resettlement of children from Ukraine.”
- The list also includes 15 employees of the Central Election Commission Russia, including the head of department Ella Pamfilova. The State Department imposed sanctions against them for helping to organize referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions on joining the Russian Federation.
The sanctions list also includes individuals and legal entities from China, Iran, North Korea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea, Mali and the Philippines. Sanctions mean visa restrictions on entry into the United States and the blocking of financial assets in US banks. Restrictive measures were introduced under the Magnitsky Law. It was adopted in December 2012 in the USA. The law is named after Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison after being accused of helping international financier William Browder to evade taxes.