On January 13, 2025, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Decree No. 24/2025 imposing sanctions for a period of ten years against 75 individuals and 65 entities involved in the Russian financial sector.
The sanctions, in particular, concern:
– JSC National Payment Card System, the operator of the Russian payment system Mir
– Zolotaya Korona LLC is a Russian company that operates the ZolotayaKorona payment system. This is a payment system operating in Russia, other CIS countries as well as Turkey, Israel, Europe and several Southeast Asian countries
– ATOL LLC is the leading Russian manufacturer and software developer of equipment for automation of retail, e-commerce, housing, and communal services
– Reksoft LLC is a technology group that provides a full range of digital transformation services for enterprises
According to independent media, Yardoff Group LLC and its founder, Alexander Faktor, are among the companies and individuals who have been sanctioned by Ukraine. This businessman is probably the founder of the international payments service, MoneyPort.ru. This service allows you to transfer money between countries to accounts of individuals and legal entities, and it seems to work without creating a legal entity. Financial transfer operations take place in private chats in Telegram messenger, and for each transfer, clients pay about 5% of the transfer amount to the service.
