The United States on November 3 placed sanctions on a Russian national for allegedly helping Russian elites launder and transfer money using virtual currency in contravention of sanctions imposed after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Yekaterina Zhdanova helped a Russian client hide their source of wealth to transfer more than $2.3 million into Western Europe through a fraudulently opened investment account and real estate purchases in 2022, the Treasury Department said in a statement. Zhdanova also used virtual currency exchanges to help oligarchs who relocated internationally, the statement said.
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