US Treasury: “Kremlin report” contains a secret annex

“The Ministry of Finance made it clear that our goal is to fight the destabilizing actions of Russia,” said US Undersecretary of Finance Tony Say to the agency. Bloomberg. “The Ministry of Finance has included a secret annex to the report in order to prevent the potential flight of assets of these individuals and companies, as well as to avoid disclosure of sensitive information.”

Shortly before midnight on Monday the Ministry of Finance handed to the Congress a report listing the names of 210 Russian officials and businessmen close to Vladimir Putin.

The entire list is available for this. link

Later, the treasury acknowledged that the list of 96 oligarchs is completely copied from the magazine's rating Forbes.

According to Tony Say, the Democrats in Congress who criticized the report were based on the “widespread misinterpretation” of this document, which was made by many media. The deputy head of the Ministry of Finance also confirmed that the report would be the basis for sanctions against Russia.

Formerly an economist specializing in Eastern European countries, an expert of the Atlantic Council, Anders Aslund saidthat the "Kremlin report" was replaced at the last moment.