Date: June 23rd, 2018 11:28 AM
Author: Stubborn office
Fearing U.S. sanctions, several Swiss banks have reportedly frozen roughly 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.01 billion) of the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s personal savings, a source in the Renova Group told Forbes Russia. Last week, the Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Wochenende reported that Swiss banks had frozen twice as much of Vekselberg’s money.
According to Forbes, UBS, Credit Suisse, and Julius Baer have taken action against Vekselberg. Even the Bank of Cyprus, 9.27 percent of which Vekselberg owns, might freeze his accounts, though Forbes was unable to verify this information.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.meduza.io/en/news/2018/06/05/nervous-banks-reportedly-freeze-a-billion-dollars-in-accounts-owned-by-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg
Should freeze Wilbur Ross’s assets next
https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-06-18/commerce-secretary-maintains-toxic-financial-ties
His family still appears to have an interest in Navigator, along with the Bank of Cyprus, another Russia-tied company. In 2014, after a successful bet on the beaten-down Bank of Ireland, where Ross was a board member, he turned his sights to the Cypriot institution, which had purchased Russia’s ninth-largest bank for nearly $600 million in 2008. Ross joined the board of directors as vice chairman, a role he shared with Vladimir Strzhalkovskiy, who reportedly served alongside Vladimir Putin in the KGB and later became the Russian president’s deputy minister of economic development ...
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The largest shareholder at the bank is a company connected to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, whom Ross once hosted in his office around 2014, according to a former colleague of the commerce secretary. When Vekselberg came to the New York area earlier this year, he got a different kind of welcome: Agents working with Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, reportedly stopped him at the airport for questioning. It turns out, a company that once described itself as the U.S. affiliate of Vekselberg’s firm apparently pumped more than half a million dollars into an entity controlled by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen shortly after the president took office.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008685&forum_id=2#36296214)