Russia’s oligarch, Hermann Grev, a major Putin adviser and chief executive officer of Russia’s largest bank, has been added to the U.S. sanctions list.


Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sberbank President Hermann Gref were seen at a wreath ceremony at the monument to politician Anatoly Sapchak on February 19, 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Sberbank President Hermann Grev.Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images

  • Herman Gref is the CEO of Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial company.

  • The US Treasury added him to the list of sanctions on Thursday.

  • Gref has been Putin’s primary advisor since he started working with him in the 1990s.

The US Treasury has added to the list of sanctioned parties a person close to Vladimir Putin, an official in Russia’s major financial sector.

and Thursday press releaseThe Treasury adds Herman Gref, CEO of Russia’s largest financial institution, to the list of sanctions for the latest action, “imposing severe costs on the Russian Federation for an illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine.” did.

“Grev is nominated today for being or being a leader, official, senior executive officer, or board of directors of the Government of the Russian Federation (GoR),” he added.

According to the US Treasury, he has played various and increasingly senior roles “including the office of the Mayor of St. Petersburg.” He has been Minister of Economic Development and Trade in Russia from 2000 to 2007 and has been CEO and Chairman of Sberbank since 2007. Per Bloomberg.

Sberbank, a state-owned bank and financial services company, is Russia’s largest bank. Per ForbesRanked as the best bank in the world in 2019, but fell in 2020.

Insiders previously reported it Gold trading The distance between Americans and Russia is banned, according to a US Treasury notice citing a presidential directive signed by President Joe Biden.

A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday stated that it had added 328 members of Duma, the House of Commons of the Russian Parliament, to the sanctions list. Duma has passed a resolution calling on Putin to recognize DNR and LNR as independent states.Although they are part of Ukraine.

Insider Kate Duffy was previously licensed by Russian oligarch Petr Aven. I’m having a hard time paying the bills I don’t know if he can hire a cleaner or driver. Aven in early March Get off From the $ 22 billion investment company Letter One, which he co-founded with another licensed Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman.

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