Feb 22, 2022: According to a report by Reuters, while placing select institutions and individuals on a sanctions list, Britain mistakenly assigned the address of the Russian central bank to a privately held bank with close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin that was the target of sanctions announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

PM Johnson on Tuesday addressed parliament and slapped sanctions on five private banks including Bank Rossiya, which the government said was “privately owned by elite Russian billionaires with direct links to Putin”, but spared Russia’s largest state banks for now.

The British government mistakenly listed the address of the Bank Rossiya’s address as “Neglinnaya, 12, Moscow, 107016, Russia” which is the address of Russia’s central bank, known in Russian as “Bank Rossiya.”

The private bank, Bank Rossiya is to be placed on the sanctions list and there is no suggestion that the Russian central bank was sanctioned by Britain.

Britain’s foreign ministry did not reply to a request for comment on the mix-up.

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