The Magnitsky Act provides for the freezing of individuals' accounts

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Unlike visa sanctions, financial sanctions, which were used for the first time by the US against a member of the Georgian government, are much more severe. On December 27, it became known that the United States imposed financial sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili . Ivanishvili was added to the Treasury Department's SDN list, which requires anyone who wants to have access to the American financial sector to comply with the requirements set for those included in this list.


Ivanishvili's sanctions are part of a package of sanctions imposed against Russia. According to the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the suspension of transactions concerns, among other things, the transfer of belgium telegram phone number list compensation due to him within the framework of a dispute won in Singapore . Vakhtang Gomelauri, who was included in the Magnitsky list, which usually includes serious human rights violations, was promoted to vice prime minister.


; the seizure of movable and immovable property in the United States; the blocking of financial transactions and visa restrictions. The European Union is also considering sanctioning senior Georgian officials , although the matter is relatively complicated here, as sanctions require the consent of all 27 member states, which is currently not possible because Hungary, an ally of the Georgian government, is blocking it.