By Katharine Jackson and Timothy Ahmann
The United States sanctioned a Russian national on Friday for helping Russian elites to launder and transfer hundreds of millions of dollars using virtual currency in contravention of existing sanctions imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ekaterina Zhdanova helped a Russian client hide their source of wealth to transfer more than $2.3 million into western Europe through a fraudulently opened investment account and real estate purchases in 2022, allowing for sanctions evasion, the Treasury Department said in a statement.
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