Two captains who transported grain to Houthis from occupied Crimea are under US sanctions

U.S. sanctions have been imposed on two captains Yuriy Bilyakov and Vyacheslav Vidanov of the Zafar ship, which was exporting grain from the occupied Crimea. This was reported by writes Liga.net.

The United States of America on April 2 on April 2, the United States published a new list of sanctions on the website Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury. У the list includes these sailors, Vidanov and Belyakov, who are both Russian natives and citizens.

Investigators from Bellingcat and Lloyd's List claim that the said cargo ship Zafar last year at least twice last year at least twice delivered grain to Houthi-controlled Yemen, loading in the port of occupied Sevastopol, - writes Liga.net. 

In addition, due to ties with the Houthis, a number of businessmen have also been sanctioned by the United States.

However, at the same time, the Treasury The US Treasury Department has removed from the sanctions list Karina Rothenberg, the wife of billionaire friend of Russian dictator Putin Boris Rotenberg; The reason for the exclusion from the list is not specified, but perhaps it happened because Karina Rotenberg has a US passport.

Sanctions have been temporarily lifted from Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is also considered a close friend and adviser to the friend and adviser to the Russian president.  The reason for the for the suspension of sanctions against Dmitriev is obvious: this week he Dmitriev is to to meet with Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff this week. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., to discuss strengthening relations between the United States and Russia. This will be the first visit of a Russian official to the United States since the beginning of the of the full-scale war that Russia has unleashed in Ukraine.

First reported by "Holos Kryma" reported that  former "governor" of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov was detained at the end of january last year in London on suspicion of circumventing British sanctions.