Former Russian minister found guilty of breaching UK sanctions

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, former governor of Sevastopol in illegally annexed Crimea, was found guilty of circumventing sanctions by transferring funds to a UK bank account. Ovsiannikov opened a Halifax Bank of Scotland account and had tens of thousands of pounds transferred to it by his wife, Ekaterina Ovsiannikova. This case marks the first instance of a Russian official being convicted for avoiding sanctions.

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