Arkady Rotenberg of TPC Real Estates Holdings. It was reported that Arkady Rotenberg made this move after being placed on the U.S. sanctions list. As a result of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Barack Obama, then President of the United States, signed an executive order instructing his government to impose sanctions on the Rotenberg brothers and other close friends of the President Putin, including Sergei Ivanov and Gennadi Timchenko. These persons were placed on the Specially Designated Nationals List. As a result of the sanctions, Visa and MasterCard stopped servicing SMP Bank. In September 2014, Italy seized €30 million
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg do not meet the criteria under which the U.S. Treasury introduces economic sanctions. Rotenberg was named in the Panama Papers. Rotenberg also holds Finnish citizenship. His nephew, Igor Rotenberg () is Russian billionaire businessman. SMP Bank has sponsored auto racing teams under the brand SMP Racing. Russian drivers like Mikhail Aleshin, Sergey Sirotkin and Vitaly Petrov have competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, FIA Formula 2 Championship, IndyCar Series and European Le Mans Series. Rotenberg also owns BR Engineering, a racecar constructor. The BR01 is an LMP2 car that debuted in 2015. Boris Romanovich Rotenberg Boris Romanovich Rotenberg (,