US for Baiden blocked $ 2 billion in JPMorgan to go bypassing sanctions - WSJ

It turned out that in the short term the Russian Federation transferred more than $ 5 billion, but promised that there would be even more money. All this Russians covered the information that the funds should go to the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, as the correspondents of The Wall Street Journal on February 2.

The experts of the Ministry of Justice found that in fact the Russian Federation tried to create a dollar offshore reserve to finance their operations in the conditions of sanctions, which were actively imposed on the country in the world due to a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.

Moreover, the Ministry of Justice believes that the whole project of construction of NPPs in Turkey was created only to bypass the US sanctions against the Russian Central Bank, as the journalists of The Wall Street Journal learned. It would look like this: through the NPP, it would be possible to transfer money to Russian companies with accounts with the largest Bank of Turkey "Ziraat", instead of the need to make transactions through the United States.

The Akkui NPP Construction Agreement was signed in 2010: the total cost of the project is more than $ 22 billion. General Construction of the station - CJSC "Atombudbsport" (subsidiary of Rosatom). The license for the construction of the first power unit was issued in 2018, but all power units (and there should be 4, planning) are currently under construction.

At the same time, the physical launch of the first power unit in work was to take place in 2024, and the commissioning - in 2025, is known from open sources. Recall that the newly elected US President Donald Trump stated that in the event of a Russian Federation's refusal against Moscow, new sanctions can be imposed. The focus was reported on January 22.