WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on a Moscow-based bank jointly owned by Russian and Venezuelan state-owned companies, for allegedly trying to circumvent U.S. sanctions on the South American country.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a press release it is targeting Evrofinance Mosnarbank for its support of the Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.,
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