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Bank of Scotland fined £160,000 over account for sanctioned Putin ally

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Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, who had held senior roles in Russian government, used a variant spelling of his name to access UK banking system

Bank of Scotland has been fined £160,000 by the UK’s sanctions watchdog after opening a bank account and processing payments for an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, who became the first person to be prosecuted for circumventing UK sanctions last year, made 24 payments totalling £77,383 to or from a personal current account during February 2023.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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