© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A policeman stands guard on the essential entrance to the Financial institution of Russia in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Tuesday mistakenly assigned the handle of the Russian central financial institution to a privately held financial institution with shut hyperlinks to Russian President Vladimir Putin that was the goal of sanctions introduced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Johnson slapped sanctions on 5 non-public banks together with Financial institution Rossiya, which the federal government mentioned was “privately owned by elite Russian billionaires with direct hyperlinks to Putin”, however spared Russia’s largest state banks for now.
The federal government mistakenly listed Financial institution Rossiya’s handle as “Neglinnaya, 12, Moscow, 107016, Russia” which is the handle of Russia’s central financial institution, recognized in Russian as “Financial institution Rossiya.”
The non-public Financial institution Rossiya is predicated within the northern Russian metropolis of St Petersburg. Neglinnaya Road in Moscow has been dwelling to a Russian or Soviet central financial institution workplace for a minimum of a century.
The British international workplace later issued an replace to make “administrative corrections to 2 listings below the Russia sanctions regime” which gave the financial institution’s right handle.
The Russian central financial institution in Moscow didn’t reply to a Reuters request for remark, however a supply near the financial institution mentioned their understanding was that it was a mistake and that it had had no influence on the financial institution’s operations.
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