Journalist Anton Krasovsky on the air of "Echo of Moscow" told about the panic of wealthy Russians because of fears of being on the US sanctions list.
"I see a reaction, let's say, my friends who are afraid of this list. They are just very rich people.. These are not some Putin oligarchs. Not cops, not prosecutors, not kagebeshniki. And these are just very rich people who earned their money even under Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. And they, most likely, too will appear in sanctions lists. And I have a feeling, or rather by the conversations that these people lead, according to the panic that now reigns inside this first thousand Russian "Forbes", and this is a real panic, believe me. It seems to me that, at last, serious sanctions really will begin. And with this nothing can be done. This is a fact, "the journalist shared..
Krasovsky compared the situation with the ban on the Russian flag at the 2018 Olympics, which "to the last no one could believe". According to him, no one believes in the introduction of new sanctions either.
Nevertheless, according to the journalist, new sanctions will be introduced in January-February and they will be "comprehensive, monstrous, which has never been in relation to Russia, to Russian business and to Russians in general". Restrictions will concern not only money, but also "education, residence, visas and so on".
"All the old mechanisms do not work anymore. Apparently, sanctions will be such. A man thinks, now I will divorce my wife and just write everything down for my wife. No. His wife, even in divorce, is also in these sanctions. Just because she is his wife. And now, for example, a well-known oligarch divorced immediately after these sanctions were announced, as it became generally clear that the sanctions would be. He announced the next day his divorce from his wife, with whom he held his hand the day before yesterday. So now they are waiting, apparently, the decision of the court in the United States, so that the court awarded the American this is like a former wife. But something does not confer. There is not yet a trial. I am sure that the court will not take place. I am sure that he will fall into these sanctions, and his wife. And children will fall into these sanctions. All will fall under sanctions. Here are each of these people. And they know it, they have a panic now, "Krasovsky said..
As an example, the journalist brought Mikhail Prokhorov, who has all the business in the US: Barclays Arena, Brooklyn Nets and so on.
"It would seem that he has nothing to do with this. And since the Americans have covered the entire offshore bank this Cypriot. Which they now attribute to Mikhail Prokhorov and declare it an official washing-off scheme that has been in operation since the 90s and that thousands of people get into this scheme. And the initiator and manager of this scheme is openly Mikhail Prokhorov, "he said..