OFAC Sanctions People, Companies for Supporting Russian Government Operative
The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 15 people and entities for supporting Russian government operative Yevgeniy Prigozhin and the Russian Federal Security Service, OFAC said Sept. 23. The designations are designed to increase pressure on Prigozhin, who runs and finances the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that was sanctioned by OFAC in 2018.
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The sanctions target Prigozhin’s mining companies -- Russia-based M Finans and Central African Republic-based Lobaye Invest -- as well as employees Dmitry Sergeevich Sytii, Yevgeniy Khodotov and Alexander Yuryevich Kuzin. OFAC also designated Okeanos, a Russia-based underwater technology company, and employees Elena Nikolaevna Ivanova, Boris Aleksandrovich Gaykovich, Nadezhda Leonidovna Kuchumova and Vladislav Yuryevich Zanin. Also sanctioned are Finland-based Optima Freight OY, a freight forwarding company that supplied equipment for Okeanos, its manager Nikita Gennadievitch Kovalevskij, and Kovalevskij’s companies GCH Finland OY, Unicum Trade OY and ACEX OY.