Russian special services recorded an unprecedented activity of US financial intelligence in European countries and a number of other states, connected with the preparations for the introduction of a new sanctions list against Moscow. This is reported by Rosbalt with reference to its own sources. We are talking about tens of thousands of Russians, primarily employees of state companies, officials, their close and distant relatives. Washington is interested in having their accounts, real estate and any other assets. The activity of American financial intelligence is directly related to the investigation of the FBI and the preparation by the Senate of a report on Russia's interference in US presidential elections. It is expected that the work will be completed by the end of this year, and the first results of the investigation will be announced in February 2018. At the same time, a new list of Russian citizens will be announced, against which sanctions are imposed. "We have data that this list will be unprecedentedly large. Some hotheads in the US suggest imposing sanctions against almost 50,000 Russian citizens. For this, the collection of information about the Russians, who would have been most inconvenienced.

Obviously, this will be a kind of US demarche in the run-up to the presidential elections in Russia, "a source in Russian special services. Recall that in March 2017 it became known that Washington is conducting an official investigation of Russia's interference in US elections. Then the director of the FBI James Komi. As reported, the US will apply sanctions against foreign individuals and companies that help conduct transactions in the interests of Russians already under US sanctions.