The government is reviewing its sanctions regime after openDemocracy revealed that the Treasury gave a sanctioned Russian warlord permission to sue a British journalist under Rishi Sunak’s watch.
Emails seen by this website showed that in 2021, when Sunak was chancellor, the Treasury issued a special licence to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of Russia’s murderous mercenary army Wager Group.
This allowed Prigozhin to circumvent UK government sanctions to pursue a frivolous legal attack that would leave Eliot Higgins, the editor of investigative website Bellingcat, tens of thousands of pounds in debt.
