BRICS founding member Russia says it plans to add the “international Satanism movement” to a financial blacklist, per President Vladimir Putin. The move will allow Russia to freeze and seize assets of alleged members even if they have no criminal record. Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian federal agency that maintains the financial blacklist of “terrorists and extremists”, added the “international Satanism movement” to its list on Friday, its website showed.

The BRICS country has been pushing for the blacklisting for several months now. “The movement is closely linked to manifestations of radical nationalism and neo-Nazism,” Russia’s prosecutor general said in a statement in July.

Russia’s Supreme Court declared the “international Satanism movement” extremist in July, after prosecutors accused its members of desecrating Orthodox Christian churches and spreading “hatred”. “The movement is closely linked to manifestations of radical nationalism and neo-Nazism,” Russia’s prosecutor general said in a statement in July.

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Furthermore, per Russia’s federal agency that maintains the financial blacklist of “terrorists and extremists”, Satanism refers to any ideology or religion that venerates Satan, a supernatural entity in Abrahamic religions who embodies evil. It is not known how many people adhere to Satanism worldwide or in Russia. Russia recently carried on oil deals with fellow BRICS member India despite sanctions from the US and threats from Trump.