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US Lifts Sanctions Against Tempbank Board Member Arkadiy Vainshtein - Treasury

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has lifted sanctions against Tempbank board member Arkadiy Vainshtein, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
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"The following deletions have been made to OFAC's SDN List: VAINSHTEIN, Arkadiy," the statement said.

The US included the Moscow-based Tempbank in its Syria-related sanctions list in May 2014, claiming that it had been involved in cash transfers with the Syrian Central Bank. 

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