The US Department of the Treasury lifted sanctions on the co-founder of one of the largest Russian IT companies IBS and a former member of the Forbes list, Russian Anatoly Karachinsky, who was in the top 200 richest businessmen in Russia in 2021. The decision to remove him from the sanctions list is posted on the official website of the Ministry of Finance.

In April 2022, Karachinsky was included in the list as a member of the Supervisory Board of Otkritie Bank. Less than a month later, he resigned from the board of directors of IBS, along with the former financial director of the bank, Yulia Yukhadi..

In June, Karachinsky sold his stake in the company to IBS operations management and ceased to be the beneficiary of the group of companies.

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At the same time, the US Treasury imposed sanctions against a number of Russian and foreign citizens.. The list includes the president of the Mercury group of companies Igor Kesaev (32nd place in the Forbes rating, $4.1 billion), the rector of the Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko (40th place in the Forbes rating, his and his family's fortune is estimated at $3.1.

71 companies also blacklisted due to Russian support. 69 of them are Russian organizations, one more each from Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.