“The Financial Crime Investigation Service has been informed that the financial institution has suspended PhosAgro Baltic’s accounts and froze funds in excess of 2.9 million euros. The decision was made on March 10,” a spokeswoman for Modesta Zdanauskaite told the center.
Another 4.4 million euros belonging to eight legal entities and four natural persons have been frozen in Lithuania.
Siena reports that the real beneficiaries of the PhosAgro group are the family of Andrei Guriev, the executive director of the oligarch and fertilizer producer PhosAgro, who is on the European Union’s (EU) sanctions list, and Vladimir Litvinenko, a St. Petersburg scientist who was away from Russian President Vladimir Putin. supervisor. Gurjev resigned as head of PhosAgro after EU sanctions imposed on March 9.
Mykolas Majauskas, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament, told BNS this week that since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in Lithuania on February 24, sanctions have been imposed on 11 companies and five individuals. euro).
He said the sanctions were against three Russian oligarchs on the EU sanctions list related to the military industry sector: Sergei Chesezov, CEO of Rosteh, Alexei Mordashov, CEO of mining and steel company Severstal, who is also a shareholder in Lenta and the tour operator. “TUI”, as well as mineral fertilizer and coal tycoon Andrei Melnichenko.
Majakus admitted that he did not know whether all the persons whose funds were frozen in Lithuania were related to these oligarchs.
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