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Michael Bauchmüller, Klaus Ott and Jörg Schmitt
When the European Union (EU) presented a new list of sanctions against supporters of ruler Vladimir Putin shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he came first: Igor Ivanovich Sechin, also spelled Sechin. Born on September 7, 1960 in what was then Leningrad in what was then the USSR. The EU noted that he was one of Putin’s most trusted and closest advisors and “his personal friend”.