The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has lifted Russia-related sanctions on two Russian-flagged general cargo ships, seven Russian nationals, and two Turkey-based companies,

The U.S. Treasury Department has removed seven Russian nationals, two Russian ships, and two Turkish companies from its sanctions list, the department announced on June 24. The Treasury Department did not specify the reason behind this decision. The following individuals were removed from the specially designated nationals list (SDN):

• Ivan Potanin (son of oligarch Vladimir Potanin, Chair of Norilsk Nickel)
• German Belous (JSCB Novikombank Deputy Chair)
• Irian Kremleva (Otkritie FC Bank Management Board Member)
• Mikhail Klyukin (PJSC Sovcombak Supervisory Board Member)
• Victor Nikolaev (Otkritie FC Bank Management Board Member)
• Nadia Cherkasova (Otkritie FC Bank Management Board Member)
• Maksim Smirnov (Russian national).

  lifted some Russia-related sanctions

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has lifted Russia-related sanctions on two Russian-flagged general cargo ships, seven Russian nationals, and two Turkey-based companies, according to an OFAC notice dated 24 June 2026. The deletions remove the parties from OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals List, clearing the entries for the vessels Vyacheslav Arshinov, IMO 9945136, and Gennady Egorov, IMO 9945124. Both ships are Russian-flagged general cargo vessels and were linked in OFAC records to Joint Stock Company State Transportation Leasing Company.

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Two Turkish companies 

Additionally, two Turkish companies were removed from the list as well: IDA Asansor. This elevator company has been accused of circumventing sanctions and supplying goods to the Russian defense industry .OFAC did not give a reason for the deletions.

About: OFAC 

OFAC stands for the Office of Foreign Assets Control. It is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces economic sanctions programs primarily against countries and groups of individuals, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers. The sanctions can be either comprehensive or selective, using the blocking of assets and trade restrictions to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals.

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