New UK sanctions target Sberbank CEO Gref, businessman Tinkov, more Russian banks

The sanctioned legal entities include Gazprombank, Russian agricultural bank, Alfa-Bank, SMP Bank, and the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The UK authorities have added a number of Russian banks, companies and defense sector enterprises to the black list. According to the list updated on Thursday, 59 individuals and legal entities from Russia come under restrictive measures.

In particular, the list includes Sberbank CEO Herman Gref, the first deputy of the board of the bank Alexander Vedyakhin and the ex-deputy Chairman Lev Khasis, businessmen Oleg Tinkov and Evgeny Shvidler, Qazet.az reports.

Sanctions have been imposed on Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Belgian Didier Casimiro, First Vice President of Rosneft, Croat Zeljko Runje, Vice President of Rosneft for Offshore Projects, and Ivan Sechin, son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.

Restrictions apply to Deputy Prime Minister - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, Plenipotentiary Representatives in the Northwestern, Urals, Volga and Siberian Federal Districts Alexander Gutsan, Vladimir Yakushev, Igor Komarov and Anatoly Seryshev, as well as Deputy Minister of Defense Dmitry Bulgakov.

Polina Kovaleva, whom the British Foreign Office calls the stepdaughter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the acting mayor of Ukrainian Melitopol, Galina Danilchenko also came under the sanctions. These individuals are banned from entering the UK and their assets there, if found, will be frozen.