South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency

South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency

The Republican senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of Donald Trump, has been added to a list of “terrorists and extremists” kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency.

Tass, the state-run news agency, first reported the move by Rosfinmonitoring, which allows authorities to freeze Russian bank accounts, though in Graham’s case is likely to be chiefly symbolic.