![]() The annulment for 2014-15 amounts only to a technicality, according to a person familiar with the judgment. The sanctions still hold because while the bloc had not shown in the earlier period that Rotenberg had benefited from contracts or been favored by Putin at the time of Russia's annexation of Crimea, it provided more proof for 2015-2016. The General Court of the European Union, the EU's second-highest court, ruled that the EU had given sufficient evidence for the measures against him in 2015-16, although not in 2014-2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rotenberg had appealed against the asset freeze and travel ban the EU imposed on him as part of a package of sanctions against more than 150 officials, military personnel and Putin associates to protest against Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An EU court on Wednesday upheld sanctions imposed on Arkady Rotenberg, a close ally and former judo partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose company won a contract to build a bridge linking the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea.
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