Two individuals have been convicted (9 April 2025) of breaches of Russian linked financial sanctions for the first time ever in the United Kingdom. Dmitrii Ovsyannikov, 48, and Alexei Ovsyannikov (AO) ...

A former Russian government minister became the first person Wednesday to be convicted in the U.K. of circumventing sanctions put in place after the illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.