EU SANCTIONS RUSSIAN PORT COMPANY HANDLING NORTH KOREAN MILITARY SUPPLIES
June 22nd, 2024
A company helping ship North Korean military supplies into Russia has been sanctioned by the European Union (EU), after Moscow signed a defence deal with North Korea, the rogue one-party state subject to FATF’s harshest AML/CFT controls.
As Moscow continues its two-and-a-half-year long invasion of Ukraine, the EU Council of Ministers have banned any transactions with the company and frozen any EU assets of LLC Vostochnaya Stevedoring Co, which handles containers in Vostochny port, in Russia’s Pacific far east region Primorsky, near Vladivostok, just 180km ...
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