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Reuters has unearthed an error made by Boris Johnson’s government when it slapped sanctions on five private Russian banks, including Rossiya Bank, which the government said was “privately owned by elite Russian billionaires with direct links to Putin” (the two largest state banks were spared from sanctions, for now).
The sanctions document mistakenly listed Rossiya Bank’s address as “Neglinnaya, 12 Moscow, 107016, Russia”. It is, in fact, is the address of Russia’s central bank –– known in Russian as “Bank Rossiya,” which was founded in 1860.
Rossiya Bank, the private bank created in 1990, is based in St Petersburg. This is thought to be an error - there is no suggestion that the central bank has been sanctioned, Reuters said.
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