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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Russian F1 driver added to list of people sanctioned by EU

Sacked Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin.
Sacked Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

A Formula One driver and a Russian previously linked to a £300m mansion that is London’s second largest house after Buckingham Palace are among 160 individuals added to an EU sanctions list designed to squeeze Vladimir Putin’s “closest circle”.

Nikita Mazepin’s contract with the Haas F1 team was terminated after the invasion of Ukraine. Haas F1 was sponsored by the Russian chemical firm Uralchem, whose general director is Mazepin’s father, Dmitry Arkadievich Mazepin.

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