Lawmakers in the United States have been pushing the Trump administration to crack down on Russia, and now they’re setting their sights on multinational banks to tighten the noose around Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vast financial empire.
Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse sent a letter to the CEOs of eight major banks — three from the United States and five from Europe — requesting details on the accounts and assets of Putin’s top allies, following the Treasury Department’s publication of a Russian “oligarch list” that coincided with new sanctions.
