Russian Tycoon Aven’s Latvian Citizenship Should Be Linked US Sanctions, PM Says

Latvian authorities need to take into account new US sanctions against Russian tycoon Petr Aven as they decide whether to revoke his citizenship, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said.

The sanctions, announced Friday against Aven and three others who helped found the Alfa Group banking conglomerate, are “another important signal to the responsible Latvian institutions evaluating the legitimacy of his citizenship,” Karins said in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.