Reuters
Britain mistakenly puts Russian central bank’s address on sanctions list
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Tuesday mistakenly assigned the address of the Russian central bank to a privately held bank with close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin that was the target of sanctions announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson slapped sanctions on five private banks including Bank Rossiya, which the government said was “privately owned by elite Russian billionaires with direct links to Putin”, but spared Russia’s largest state banks for now. The government mistakenly listed Bank Rossiya’s address as “Neglinnaya, 12, Moscow, 107016, Russia” which is the address of Russia’s central bank, known in Russian as “Bank Rossiya.”
