Questions are being asked why there seem to be a series of high-level Kremlin sympathizers who have been sanctioned by the EU, and missing from a similar list of those sanctioned in Switzerland.
Despite assurances from the Swiss people’s Party Federal Councillor, Guy Parmelin, that Switzerland has adopted all the EU sanctions – the press is reporting that doesn’t seem to be the case.
There are 27 individuals – mainly Russian – three state backed bodies and a notorious mercenary group missing.
The most obvious missing individual is the former pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. He’s been convicted in Ukraine in his absence of mass murder following deaths of protestors in Kyiv during protests in 2014.
Also missing is the Wagner Group; an extremist organisation accused of human rights abuses and was also thought to be involved in an attempt to assassinate the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Other names not on the Swiss list are agents accused of poisoning Putin’s enemies.
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs is only saying the list is drawn up on a case-by-case basis.
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