Six Swiss are on the new US sanctions list

Exactly on the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the US Treasury Department has released its latest list of sanctions. The names of six Swiss citizens and two companies are also on it, the “SonntagsZeitung” reports.

One of these people, an Italian-Swiss dual national, is accused of supplying equipment to the Russian secret service and military – including material for Moscow’s nuclear weapons laboratories – with the help of the other people and companies.

The six Swiss are now considered a “threat to national security” by the United States. Three of them have already been targeted by Swiss justice. One of them, as a senior manager of the federal arms company Ruag, had supplied ammunition, 800 Sig Sauer pistols, 20 sniper rifles from the Swiss manufacturer Swiss Arms and high-tech cameras to Vladimir Putin’s personal security forces (70). private account and in collaboration with the Italian-Swiss dual nationality, the Federal Surveillance Service (FSO).

Property in Weggis and on the Limmatquai

A close acquaintance of the Russian head of government is also on the new American sanctions list: Alexander Udodow is suspected of money laundering from crimes in Russia in the West. Udodow had bought several properties in Switzerland. He bought a hotel in Weggis LU for four million francs and an office building on Limmatquai in Zurich for 37 million francs. Both homes were resold after a short time.

Udodow may have withdrawn from Switzerland by now. His ex-wife – the sister of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (56) – and their daughter are still registered here. However, the two are not on any sanctions list. Udodov was considered the custodian of Mishustin’s secret fortunes abroad.

Switzerland takes note

The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) takes note of the new measures taken by the US government under Executive Order 14024, but emphasizes that “Switzerland has never before adopted US sanctions”.

A Swiss has already been hit in one of the last rounds of sanctions by the US. Lucerne businessman Alexander Studhalter is said to have laundered money for Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov (56).

In a statement, Studhalter countered that he had had no operations in Russia since 2017 and had no business ties with Kerimov since 2013. “The money laundering allegation against Mr. Kerimov is false and baseless, as a court in France officially confirmed again in 2022.” (kes)

Source: Blick