UK hits key figures in Russian oil trade with sanctions

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The UK is trying to increase economic pressure on Moscow in the ongoing discussion for the Ukraine peace treaty, imposing sanctions on key figures involved in Russian oil business.

The Prime Minister Care Starmar, who described the UK as the “largest all -time sanctions package” against oil tankers in Russia’s so -called shade fleet, also targeted five traders from Etiba, Tahir Garaev and Ahmed Kerimov to five traders from the UK Attarbaijan.

The decision to approve the executives represents a significant growing in the West effort to restrict Russian oil trade. Companies that have previously been involved in the export of Russian oil have been approved by the UK, the United States and the EU, but usually the target is less stopped.

The widespread Western sanctions against Moscow allowed Russian oil to flow, but were designed to reduce the revenue collected by Kremlin. In response, Russia created a network of oil tankers, shipping companies and traders to help prevent many rules.

The IUB, Garave and Kerimov were all directly or indirectly owned or controlled or were involved in supporting the Russian government in support of the Russian government by serving as the director of Coral Energy (now two groups), “the UK government said.

The United Kingdom connects Ayab to two more companies, Nord Axis Limited and BX Energy, which is approved on Friday.

For the first time, authorities have publicly associated Ayab with Coral Energy, which founded Garave in the 21st, and Nord Axis, which was among Ukraine’s 2022 full-scale aggression, was among a group of traders spread to trade in the trade.

The Russian tanks were included in the Nord Axis on February 1522, a week before the Ukrainian border crossed the Ukrainian border. Five months later, it appeared as in July 2022 Buyer of Trafigura is the buyer of millions of billions of dollars in Russia’s giant vostoc oil projectThe

The terms of the agreement were not published between the two organizations holding the person. Trafigura said that at that time Nord Axis took $ 5.8 billion dollars of “non-Rores Bank Debt O”, it borrowed the wealth from Russian ND donors to buy its original $ 7.3bn. Trafiguras declined to comment on the UK’s decision.

Coral earlier said that it was injured in Russian oil before the launch of Western restrictions at the end of December 2022.

In 2021, Kerimov and two other coral officials, Anar Madatli and Talat Safarov, who were also approved on Friday, acquired the company from the original shareholder Gariev in a management bout. They later re -branded it as a group of 2. The UK approved 2 in December.

In a statement to the Financial Times on behalf of 2ivers, Madatley and Safarov, Kerimov said the restrictions “our ongoing cooperation to support the proven records of legal behavior and the controllers” “neglected” these restrictions.

“UK sanctions first in my organization and now personally on me, a serious and unjust action that fails to recognize enough reforms in our hands,” he said. “Since 2022, we have reduced the activity and have come out of the Russian Energy Market, the G7 price is completely aligned with the Cap alliance.”

Ayab and Garrev could not be reached for the instant to comment immediately.

The United Kingdom also imposed a ban on dozens of oil tankers, saying that since the beginning of 2021, more than $ 20 billion cargo has carried more cargo.

“Every step we take to increase the pressure on Russia and to achieve Ukraine’s justice and sustainable peace,” Starmer said in a statement that another step towards the protection and prosperity of the UK.