The US Treasury Department’s top sanctions official will visit T\u00fcrkiye and the United Arab Emirates next week to warn officials and businesses there that Washington will punish them if they dodge its sanctions on Russia, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Brian Nelson, the department\u2019s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will travel to Oman, the UAE, and T\u00fcrkiye between Sunday and Friday. Meeting with government officials, businesses, and financial institutions, Nelson will caution them that they could lose access to US markets \u201con account of doing business with sanctioned entities,\u201d a Treasury spokesperson told the news agency.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
US officials have repeatedly highlighted T\u00fcrkiye as a potential hub of sanctions evasion, and unnamed Western officials told the Financial Times in August that they were \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about allegations of trade between Turkish firms and sanctioned Russian entities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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