US authorities have charged Kremlin-connected businessman Konstantin Malofeyev with violating US sanctions in the first criminal proceedings against an oligarch since the start of the conflict in Ukraine.
Malofeyev, a Russian investor and founder of a pro-Putin media empire, is accused of breaching sanctions imposed in response to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea by hiring a US citizen to manage his television networks and attempting to acquire a network in Bulgaria.
The pair and others also allegedly conspired to illegally transfer a $10mn investment that Malofeyev had made in a Texas bank to a business associate in Greece in 2015, in violation of the same package of sanctions.
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