The US Treasury Department has placed Russian Ivan Maslov on the Russian Federation sanctions list, which it suspects has ties to the private military company (PMC) Wagner. This is stated in a post at: Web site American ministry.
Restrictions on the citizen of the Russian Federation were introduced on the basis of the decree of the President of the United States of America Joe Biden “On the blocking of property in connection with some harmful foreign activity of the government of the Russian Federation.”
Ned Price, former spokesperson for the US State Department declarationThat the US authorities cooperated with representatives of different countries to counter the Wagner PMCs. He noted that the State Department realized that “no matter where the Wagner group is – in Africa, Ukraine or elsewhere” these countries often become “weaker, poorer and more insecure, less independent” afterwards.