To withdraw someone from under US sanctions, it is possible, but for this you need to prove to officials from Washington that the person or company that has fallen under restrictions is not related to the problem due to which sanctions were imposed. Robert Strik, head of the lobbying firm Stryk Global Diplomacy from Washington, told about this in an interview with Lente.ru.
“You need to know which US foreign policy installations led to sanctions: a problem in the humanitarian area, in financial or political – something with democracy, for example. Next, you need to form a plan for how to prove to the US state that you do not have a relationship To this problem, which indicates this information is incorrect, “said Strik.
In this case, no prescribed way to exit from under the sanctions does not exist – the mechanisms of work of the management of foreign assets control (OFAC) of the US Ministry of Finance responsible for the application of sanctions are very confused.
“in the US judicial system there are established appeal mechanisms, it is possible to track how successfully the process is: you know which question is when it is considered, what solutions can endure the judges. In the ofac all this is not there – this is a huge black box which is very difficult, “the lobbyist explained.
According to Stricken, to protest sanctions, you need to work with the Ministry of Finance, the National Security Council, the White House, the State Department and the Ministry of Justice. “This is a very labor cost. And this is considering that no one really knows how in this [sanction] list,” he noted.
October 10 became known that the Russian authorities agreed to the visit of the Deputy Secretary of State on Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to Moscow – in exchange for the fact that a number of Russians were excluded from the sanctuction list of the US government.