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For: The Opinion Updated 29 Apr 2022, 15: 34 pm EDT
United States officials can claim the billions of dollars that are frozen in one of the main banks of Russia, this after the sanctions that have been imposed on the country for the war against Ukraine.
This idea that has sounded among the officials has a main objective, which is the reconstruction of Ukraine when the invasion ends In this way the fortunes of the Russian oligarchs will have a more purpose important as it is to lift up the country that they have devastated for two months.
President Joe Biden was the one who promoted using these frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia
. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken addressed this issue during a hearing to explain how the millions of dollars can be seized.
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“We have asked our own lawyers to analyze what authorities would be necessary, potentially, to seize those assets, but not only to seize them, but to use them for the reconstruction of Ukraine“, he mentioned.
Russia has received strong economic sanctions since it invaded Ukraine and e The Kremlin government took care of a large amount of money they had to protect their economy if an event like the one happening now
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More of 400 lawmakers voted in the House to encourage the Joe Biden administration to use that money for the benefit of the Ukrainian people through s of military and humanitarian assistance, as well as the reconstruction of the nation.
“We should use the wealth that the Putin regime built to rebuild the country that Putin is destroying,” said New Jersey Democratic Representative Tom Malinowski, reported the Washington Examiner newspaper.
The Treasury has sanctioned and blocked ships and aircraft valued at millions of dollars belonging to the Russian oligarchs who represented the Elite of the country.
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