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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Davies

Elite London law firm fined £465,000 for Russian sanctions breaches

The London branch of Herbert Smith Freehills
The London branch of Herbert Smith Freehills, a law firm with offices around the world. Photograph: Jonathan Goldberg/Alamy

Herbert Smith Freehills, the elite global law firm based in London, has been fined by the British government after its former Moscow office made millions of pounds in payments to sanctioned Russian banks.

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), said it had imposed a penalty of £465,000 on HSF Moscow, which was a subsidiary of HSF London until its closure in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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