The U.S. Department of the Treasury has excluded Anatoly Karachinskiy, a co-founder of IBS Group from the sanctioned list.
According to the Meduza media outlet, this is the first time that the U.S. has lifted sanctions on a Russian businessman since the war in Ukraine began. However, the Department of the Treasury hasn’t revealed any reasons behind this decision.
In 2021, Karachinsky was ranked by Forbes as 149th richest person in Russia with a fortune of $800 million.
The U.S. government put the businessman on the sanctioned list in April 2022 due to Karachinsky’s...