US to designate Russia’s Wagner mercenary group as a ‘transnational criminal organization’

The United States Treasury Department is anticipated to designate the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group as a “global criminal company” on Friday, and will enforce extra sanctions next week versus the group and its assistance network throughout the world, the White Home stated on Friday.

” These actions acknowledge the transcontinental hazard that Wagner presents, consisting of through its continuous pattern of severe criminal activity,” National Security Council Planner for Strategic Communications John Kirby is anticipated to inform press reporters on Friday, ahead of the Treasury Department statement.

In addition to the brand-new sanctions, the United States has actually launched freshly declassified pictures of Russian railcars taking a trip from Russia to North Korea and back in November, in what the United States thinks was the preliminary shipment of infantry rockets and rockets for usage by the mercenary company Wagner Group in Ukraine.

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