Russian oligarchs, companies lost $16 billion after new Trump sanctions

Published April 10, 2018 1:23pm ET



Russian oligarchs lost $16 billion after President Trump imposed sanctions on Russian entities last week.

“I lost $250 million a day,” Oleg Tinkov, founder and chair of the board of directors at Tinkoff Bank, said during a business conference in Moscow Tuesday, according to NBC News. “But there have been worse days. I remember I lost a billion in a day. So, actually, it was a very positive day.”

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