US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Jesse Baker held a meeting with representatives of leading financial institutions in Hong Kong. The purpose of the meeting was to warn banks against doing business with russia, Nikkei reports.
According to the publication, the talks took place in December with the participation of representatives of the region's largest banks, such as HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China. The meeting took place against the backdrop of calls from US congressmen to tighten anti-russian sanctions.
As is known, in November, the US House of Representatives Special Committee on the Chinese Communist Party appealed to US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen with a call to review Hong Kong's trade privileges, which distinguish it from mainland China.
Congressmen said that Hong Kong has become a center for financial crimes, and also plays a key role in supplying banned Western technologies to russia, facilitating the trade in russian gold, and operating so-called "ghost ships" that illegally cooperate with North Korea, as well as creating shell companies to purchase Iranian oil.
As previously reported, in July of this year, the then head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Kuleba, called on Hong Kong to close russia's ways of circumventing Western sanctions.
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