The US Treasury presented a strategy to combat the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions

US Department of the Treasury building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, May 14.The US Treasury Department on Friday unveiled a 2022 strategy to combat various financial violations, among which the department includes attempts to circumvent sanctions imposed against Russia. measures include, among other things, efforts to more effectively identify the «hidden» assets in the United States of Russian businessmen who fell under the sanctions. In addition, the strategy aims to increase the transparency of offshore financial activities, as well as countering «all forms of illicit funding.» Combating the harmful effects of illicit funding on our financial system, economy and society is an integral part of efforts to strengthen national security and prosperity United States,” follows from the document. In it, the US Department of the Treasury notes that, despite the “significant progress” made in the United States in this direction, the government must “adapt to the changing environment of threats, as well as to structural and technological changes in the field of financial services, to succeed in this all-important struggle».It’s time for Biden to forget about Ukraine, writes WPAccording to the strategy, after the start of the Russian military special operation in Ukraine in February, Russian entrepreneurs “and their proxies, with the assistance of professional assistants, tried or are trying to make anonymous and hide their bank accounts, securities , real estate, gold and other assets, seeking to circumvent financial restrictions.» In this regard, the department proposes, among other things, to expand measures to simplify the exchange of data between various US regulatory agencies. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.