Attorney General Merrick Garland, middle, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, left, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, proper, speaks at a information convention on the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to debate new and up to date enforcement actions to disrupt and prosecute prison Russian exercise. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department introduced Wednesday that it had charged a Russian oligarch with sanctions violations and that officers have dismantled a cybercrime operation managed by a Russian navy intelligence company.
The case in opposition to in opposition to Konstantin Malofeyev accuses him of making an attempt to evade earlier Treasury Department sanctions by searching for to secretly purchase media organizations throughout Europe. Officials additionally seized thousands and thousands of {dollars} they are saying are traceable to the sanctions violations.
The announcement comes two days after U.S. officers seized a yacht in Spain belonging to a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, with shut ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Justice Department within the final 12 months has taken intention in opposition to Russia-based cybercrime, recovering in June most of a multimillion-dollar ransom that Colonial Pipeline paid to hackers after a ransomware assault that halted operations and saying prices final fall in opposition to two suspected ransomware operators.
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