Russia seeks former Deputy Finance Minister accused of treason

TASS news agency reported on November 18 that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put former Deputy Minister of Finance and former First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia (the country's central bank) Sergey Aleksashenko on the wanted list with criminal charges.

Mr. Sergey Aleksashenko, former deputy minister, has just been wanted by Russia.

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Two days earlier, Vasily Piskaryov, chairman of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) committee investigating foreign interference in Russia’s internal affairs, asked the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to consider Aleksashenko and economist Sergey Guriyev as foreign agents for anti-Russian activities. According to Piskaryov, elements of a crime, including treason, could be found in the actions of the two men.

Mr. Aleksashenko served as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1993-1995 and First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia from 1995-1998. He lives in the United States and is a critic of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.

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He wrote on Telegram that he had been in the Russian Interior Ministry database for the past five years, but being put on the wanted list was a new development.

Mr. Guriyev is a professor of economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), one of the major universities in France. MP Piskaryov accused Mr. Alesashenko and Mr. Guriyev of participating in the construction of sanctions against Russia, through their work at the international working group on sanctions against Russia at Stanford University (USA), according to Reuters.

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