The US on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg, the spouse of Russian billionaire and shut Putin affiliate Boris Rotenberg.
Karina Yurievna Rotenberg was once got rid of from the Specifically Designated Nationals (SDN) listing maintained by means of the U.S. Treasury Division’s Place of job of Overseas Property Regulate.
Leaked paperwork point out that Karina Rotenberg, who married Boris Rotenberg in 2009, has been a U.S. citizen since a minimum of 2013. She was once added to the U.S. sanctions listing in March 2022.
In spite of the Ecu Union sanctions imposed on her husband following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has persisted to go back and forth the world over.
Ultimate summer season, in keeping with the impartial Russian information outlet SVTV, she posted Instagram movies from an unique lodge in southeastern France, the place she was once observed practising Pilates at a studio in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
Karina Rotenberg heads the Moscow Equestrian Federation and she or he and her husband proceed to deal with elite stables in Europe, in keeping with the impartial information outlet Vyorstka. Databases from the World Equestrian Federation (FEI) and the Russian Equestrian Federation (FKSR) display that the Rotenbergs personal a minimum of 24 horses, some valued at as much as 900,000 euros.
Sooner than 2022, Karina Rotenberg financially supported her husband via loans issued by means of international branches of Russian banks, in keeping with the investigative information outlet IStories and the Arranged Crime and Corruption Reporting Mission (OCCRP).
Leaked paperwork got by means of IStories and the OCCRP display that an offshore corporate registered to Boris Rotenberg’s former bodyguard deposited 2 million euros within the Cyprus department of Promsvyazbank, which then issued a mortgage of an identical quantity to Karina Rotenberg the usage of that deposit as collateral.
The paperwork additional disclose that Karina Rotenberg owns part of her husband’s Western actual property holdings. She holds a percentage in a 30-hectare property in Mouans-Sartoux, 50 kilometers from Monaco, which was once valued at 17 million euros in 2014. The couple’s overall property in Monaco and France exceed 60 million euros.
In the meantime, the U.S. on Wednesday expanded its sanctions listing to incorporate a number of Russian people and entities, together with Yuri Belyakov, Vyacheslav Vidanov, and the corporations Edison, Kolibri Staff and Sky Body. Sanctions have been additionally imposed at the Russian-flagged bulk service AM Theseus.
One after the other, the EU lifted sanctions on Dmitry Pumpyansky, the billionaire founding father of the Pipe Metallurgical Corporate, in addition to on his spouse and son. The EU had first imposed sanctions at the circle of relatives 3 years in the past.
