Nate Sibley
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The case for seizing Russia’s sovereign assets for Ukraine assistance is clear—especially as Congress departs without a funding deal.
Time to put Putin’s $330 billion war chest on a one-way flight to Kyiv.
Make Russia pay!
cc
@OlenaHalushka
@RLHeinrichs
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The Miami condo that collapsed in June, killing 98 people, was apparently built to launder cartel funds in the 1980s.
Developers accordingly cut corners—critical defects that accelerated the building’s demise.
Money laundering is not a victimless crime.
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Biden denied Ukraine ATACMS (again) while McCarthy declined Zelensky’s request to address Congress
Meanwhile out in the cold and dark, bullets are whipping over and into young Ukrainians as they stand alone on the frontline of the free world
Not a good night for US leadership
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This would be the same Marine Le Pen whose party only survived financially because of a massive loan from—Russia.
Marine Le Pen, vowed her party would prevent Kyiv using French-supplied long-range weapons to strike inside Russia and would stymie French President Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion he might put French boots on Ukrainian soil.
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A whole generation of Ukrainians watched Western democracies:
- Launder Russian money
- Whitewash oligarch reputations
- Embrace Kremlin energy dependency
Then:
- Do absolutely nothing but virtue-tweet
#standwithukraine
War is Putin’s fault. But by God we should be ashamed.
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Why has US still not applied full blocking and secondary sanctions on Russia's central bank and entire financial sector, secondary sanctions on oil/gas, ignored major non-energy sectors? Room to escalate? What Russian depravity is left to deter that sanctions would in fact deter?
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“For practical purposes, [leaving Russia] isn’t an option...Nor would it be the right thing to do in terms of managing those client relationships”
Says THE Russian money laundering bank
Such greed while Ukrainian kids die is *sickening*
Sanctions time!
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Subscribe to read, but here are a couple key passages.
Interestingly it was no longer useful for money laundering precisely because these maintenance problems had undermined its value.
Money laundering is literally rotting out parts of America’s economy.
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Remember: The real star of the
#PandoraPapers
isn’t any particular corrupt politician or criminal, however big the name.
It’s the offshore financial system that not only facilitates but *incentivizes* corruption on a scale unprecedented in human history.
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Good response from WH to this dismal letter:
“Mr. Zelensky gets to determine — because it’s his country — what success looks like and when to negotiate... Quite frankly [the war] could end today if Mr. Putin did the right thing and pulled his troops out.”
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At some point we must acknowledge the obvious: “Germany is no longer a credible ally. For Germany, cheap gas, car exports to China and keeping Mr. Putin calm seem to be more important than allied democratic solidarity.”
@TomRtweets
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Sanctions are not “economic warfare.” That plays into the idea that anyone except Putin has escalated anything here.
They are simply a country saying, we don’t agree with what you’re doing—and we won’t let you use our currency to do it. That’s it!
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“But NATO can also respond with its own hybrid warfare. Releasing intelligence about Mr. Putin’s personal wealth accumulation is one place to start. Unlike Russian propaganda, news about the Putin regime’s corruption has the advantage of being true.”
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Please, please stop fixating on SWIFT.
Strong enough sanctions on Russia’s financial sector would be far more powerful and probably have effect of SWIFT (a private company that runs a bank-to-bank messaging service) dropping Russian banks anyway.
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This Christmas the USA has a surprise present for kleptocrats.
Congress just quietly passed the most powerful anti-corruption law since the FCPA in 1977. One with global reach—and massive implications.
Elaine Dezenski
@FDD_CEFP
and I examine FEPA:
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Twitter is flooded with pics from European bureaucrats of their official buildings lit up in Ukrainian colors tonight.
Must look pretty obscene to actual Ukrainians under fire, who have been begging them to severely sanction Russia since 2014. To me it looks pathetic.
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The Russian opposition I’ve met never ask for help with regime change. What they always ask is that US/EU/UK stop laundering money for Putin’s regime.
KI’s new policy paper is a blueprint for just that—giving Russians the help they’ve actually asked for.
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Ukraine using civilians as human shields would be a pretty poor tactic given Russia deliberately targets… civilians.
What happens when Ukrainian forces aren’t located in populated areas? Bucha.
Sadly the only surprising thing about this report is—they forgot to blame Israel.
⚡️ Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas.
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Stunningly good essay, even by
@navalny
standards, on how corruption underpins most of the “big” issues that leave naive Western policymakers scratching their heads, from Afghanistan failure to climate change.
Please take a couple minutes to read it!
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Yellen’s claim that the US is one of the best places in the world to launder money might be jarring to some.
But as Teddy Roosevelt said, “The exposure and punishment of public corruption is an honor to a nation, not a disgrace. The shame lies in toleration, not in correction.”
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She’s lucky to have been born an American citizen, because she’d fail the civics test that I, and other legal immigrants, have rightly had to pass to become one.
The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 44 years old, but more than a dozen were 35 or younger:
Thomas Jefferson: 33
John Hancock: 39
James Madison: 25
Alexander Hamilton: 21
James Monroe: 18
Aaron Burr: 20
Paul Revere: 41
George
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Ukraine's urgent need is military equipment and support.
But we must also
#BlockBankofRussia
, the central bank, to send the ruble into a death-spiral.
This will render the $630B Putin hoarded to fund his war useless, and cause economic mayhem and perhaps civil unrest in Russia.
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Incoming National Security Advisor
@jakejsullivan
wants “to rally our allies to combat corruption and kleptocracy, and to hold systems of authoritarian capitalism accountable for greater transparency and participation in a rules-based system.” 😎
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There it is! The Corporate Transparency Act is in the final text of the NDAA.
All that’s left is a must-pass vote and the President’s signature.
Then its goodbye to anonymous ownership of US shell companies and a bad day for kleptocrats, terrorists, cartels and rogue regimes.
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Boris YET AGAIN delaying a bill that would create a register of foreign property ownership, improve shell company transparency, and make it easier to seize stolen foreign wealth is *gobsmackingly* bad timing given London’s role in propping up Russian and Ukrainian kleptocrats🤦♂️
Extremely bad and shocking news that government is ditching planned Economic Crime Bill from next Queens Speech.
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All
@ChelseaFC
players should stage a walk-off at the League Cup final tomorrow. Remove their shirts to reveal Ukraine flag t-shirts.
Only way to avoid reputational catastrophe from which the club might never recover.
They are owned by one of Vladimir Putin’s closest oligarchs.
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“Individuals in third countries helping Putin—such as former oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, the de facto ruler of Georgia—should know they, too, will face sanctions...”
Well said
@Kasparov63
@McFaul
. Ivanishvili should be sanctioned anyway.
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So much moping about “democracy in decline” in recent years.
Major protests sweeping Iran tonight. Russia is collapsing. I think China’s future isn’t looking rosy either.
Democracies have been and will continue to be tested—but should be confidently on the offensive right now.
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Bongbong Marcos’ first executive order as Philippines president abolishes the commission set up to investigate his kleptocratic family’s stolen wealth.
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Most funding in the "Ukraine" bill will be paid to AMERICAN workers to fix outdated US defense capabilities.
Congressional dysfunction is emboldening US adversaries and alienating our allies.
Please read this brief but excellent run-down by
@RLHeinrichs
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Even at this hour, Ukrainians are just asking US/EU/UK to stop enriching Putin’s regime and funding the invasion of their country.
Not boots on the ground, just stop paying for Putin to kill us and murder our children.
What are our leaders waiting for, a good nights’ sleep?
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Problem with all these announcements about going after Russian elites’ overseas wealth is that, while physical assets are vulnerable, financial assets will have long since vanished into uncooperative jurisdictions.
The task force’s first priority must be hounding these places…
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Here, in a simple screenshot from publicly accessible , are the US lobbyists taking Russian money to push Kremlin influence in the heart of our democracy.
Please ask your congressional representatives not to accept meetings with these firms.
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So dispiriting, and insulting to Ukrainians, that Western countries are telling their citizens to evacuate in face of impending Russian invasion, yet most have still taken no substantive steps to eject Putin regime cronies and their dirty money from their own capital cities.
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Economic interdependence with authoritarians was supposed to liberalize them, prevent war.
But in assuming dictators care about consequences, all it has managed is to limit Western ability/resolve to respond to aggression with sanctions etc. Perversely making war more likely.
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BREAKING: House passes Corporate Transparency Act to tackle money laundering through US shell companies.
Huge step towards defunding kleptocrats, terrorists and other criminals abusing US financial system. 🇺🇸💰🦅
Focus now on Senate counterpart bill, the ILLICIT CASH Act.
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A reminder below, that the West has still not imposed full blocking sanctions on all Russian banks and energy companies.
Not denying the impact of measures so far, but they do have loopholes and Russians are reshuffling.
MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Some Russian oil companies have stopped banking with sanctioned lenders including VTB and Sberbank and switched to those that do not face restrictions, including Rosbank, Unicredit and Raiffeisen, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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As ruble collapses, EU/UK/US should announce plans for targeted sanctions not only on oligarchs but entire business/political/security elite. Say there will be 100s of names, and these are contingent on continued support for Putin's aggression. Now's the time to stoke dissent.
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Crimea bridge is also a symbol of Putin’s kleptocracy: $3B construction contract was gifted to childhood pal Arkady Rotenberg’s pipeline company, which had never built a bridge before. Rotenberg filched billions from such schemes but denies Putin helps him
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If you are one among many Americans who couldn’t locate Ukraine on a map, try searching under the bus where successive US administrations have thrown this vulnerable but critical ally.
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The Vatican has an especially fraught relationship with Beijing, which has predictably already betrayed their deal.
But Rome’s secrecy isn’t helping—good points from
@benedictrogers
(who I learn became Catholic on exactly the same day as me).
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🚨This morning the US Congress passed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act.
It criminalizes the solicitation of bribes by foreign officials—with universal jurisdiction.
The biggest anticorruption law since FCPA in 1977. Yeehaw!
Kleptocrats—America is coming for you.
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We ignored Russia’s globalized corruption for two decades.
This allowed Putin to entrench power. Now he is an unopposed dictator and global security threat.
Lesson: Target kleptocratic networks—and offshore system sustaining them—before oligarchies become dictatorships.
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Now would be a good time for the White House to publicize the US kleptocracy whistleblower awards scheme.
Let’s encourage Russian elite’s crooked professional enablers to rat on where they’ve really hidden all that dirty money (those seized yachts are the dregs).
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I go back and forth over kicking Taliban, Chinese, Iranian, Russian et al officials off social media.
One thing I do know: Don’t EVER kick their stupid kids off Instagram, TikTok etc. By far the easiest way to track what happened to public funds their parents stole!
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There’s a global network of anticorruption journos/CSOs that didn’t exist in 2014.
I guarantee they’re already beavering away on which Western law firms, lobbyists, banks et al continued to funnel dirty Russian cash during Ukraine crisis.
Don’t be that headline… Ditch it now!
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Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.
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The brave people of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine not only understand the stakes when it comes to resisting Russian aggression, but which side they are all on.
…Unlike some highly-paid commentators and attention-seeking Members of Congress here in America.
Ukrainian flags are prominently displayed at the anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi.
Tbilisi Protesters
#NoToRussianLaw
Follow
@GAMZIRI24
🇬🇪🇪🇺
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"They took everything from you. Or maybe any of you have got your own oil rigs? Palaces? Vineyards? Or maybe yachts? Your own bank? What are you fighting for?"
@ZelenskyyUa
goes hard against Putin's kleptocracy in a message to Russian soldiers.
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You’re kidding
@ChelseaFC
?
Your owner is Roman Abramovich, top oligarch to Putin who really, really doesn’t say
#NoToHate
of any minority and is currently slaughtering innocent people, including children, in Ukraine.
Hey, why is your owner in Russia now instead of at the game?
Join us at the
#CarabaoCupFinal
tomorrow as we say
#NoToHate
and warn against using homophobic slurs at football games.
It can be illegal and prosecuted as a hate crime.
#LGBTHM22
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Might want to wait and see before celebrating Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover as a victory for free speech.
He’s been nothing but effusive about China under Xi, which routinely threatens foreign businesses about toeing the CCP line.
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Now for some good news: Eight bipartisan senators just introduced the gloriously acronymed ILLICIT CASH Act.
It bans anonymous shell companies and introduces sweeping updates to the broader US anti-money laundering system.
Here's the one-pager:
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A shame that the Enablers Act, a critical piece of anti-fentanyl, pro-national security legislation, was excluded from the Senate NDAA.
But there remains overwhelming bipartisan support for this measure, with endorsements stretching from Biden to Pompeo.
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If Biden admin is serious about standing with Russians this weekend; and countering kleptocracy, per the President’s commitments; it will endorse these bipartisan bills as an explicit part of its response to Navalny protests.
Countering corruption is the new democracy promotion.
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The Senate just passed NDAA with a veto-proof majority—including the Anti-Money Laundering Act that will end anonymous shell companies. 🇺🇸👏
As
@TomRtweets
notes, bad news for China and other regimes who use corruption for foreign policy.
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Ukraine’s institutions aren’t weak at all. They just repulsed all-out invasion by a global power!
Overcoming legacy of communist corruption is Ukraine’s triumph—but Americans should be proud of the support they give.
Please read this by
@DCTwining
.
🇺🇦🇺🇸
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This is great by
@RLHeinrichs
So much Ukraine defense funding is actually spent here—creating US jobs, rejuvenating our own neglected defenses
But for rebuilding Ukraine? Well, there’s $300 billion frozen Russian assets sitting around…
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Do NOT fall for US/EU/UK “strongest sanctions ever” line.
Ruble, shares in sanctioned entities, Putin’s war chest already rebounding. He’s more emboldened than ever.
War was Putin’s choice, enabling him is ours. “Strong sanctions” would boot Russia from global economy, now.
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Great news! The bipartisan Enablers Act, which extends US anti-money laundering responsibilities beyond traditional banks to other especially high-risk sectors, has been included in the House NDAA. 1/5
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The legislation doesn’t actually do anything but express bipartisan backing for KleptoCapture taskforce.
Congresswoman seems to be conflating this with administrative forfeiture, a draconian measure that should be abolished. A missed opportunity to raise that in a sensible way.
@jamiedupree
Oligarchs should pay, which is why Rep. AOC fought for unprecedented sanctions. But this vote told POTUS to violate the 4th Amd & seize private property - a risky precedent for future presidents, w/ so many in the U.S. already fighting civil asset forfeiture.
Full statement:
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Ukraine has lost nearly twice as many members of its military holding back Russia since 2014 as the US did in two decades in Afghanistan. The bulwark of the West.
The least we can do is not allow Putin to fund his war using US dollars, right?
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Countries that launder money for kleptocrats soon resemble kleptocracies themselves.
It’s not a coincidence, and its why assisting small tax havens with alternative development paths should be an urgent priority.
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Ukraine is doing more to defend NATO than the vast majority of NATO countries right now.
I tell you what: If Ukraine is auditioning for NATO, it’s doing one hell of an impressive job.
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Russia fires cluster munitions at Ukrainian civilians
Ukraine fires them at Russians who are firing them at Ukrainian civilians
You do see the difference?
Besides: Ukraine is fighting for its life. Short of WMDs there are no “good” or “bad” weapons—just survival or extinction
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This will only cause the Kremlin to question US resolve and prolong Ukraine's suffering.
Unless Kyiv decides otherwise, the only acceptable outcome is Russia's complete withdrawal and submission to international justice.
What else is there to discuss?
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Whatever happens in Ukraine, Western enablers of Putin’s kleptocracy should be ditching clients with abandon. We’re in a different era of public awareness and the party is over.
The reputational costs of continuing to abet Putin won’t be annoying, but catastrophic this time.
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UK military assistance to Ukraine has been exemplary. But its tarnished by the UK having acted as a Russian money laundering hub for decades.
Until the UK enacts strong sanctions AND empowers law enforcement to hunt Russian money out of London, everything rings slightly hollow.
Spoke to
@DmytroKuleba
to give my full support to Ukraine and discussed the sanctions UK will be imposing on Russia together with our allies.
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Foreign investors now account for nearly *a third* of institutional investment in US single-family rental homes—having barely registered in these markets a few years ago. 1/2
(h/t
@amhauser
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Already a mechanism in place for this: The whistleblower fund established by the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act.
Problem is, it is new/self funding and doesn’t have enough money in yet.
Some enterprising lawmaker should appropriate $100M to get the ball rolling!
My advice: The new Task Force should offer cash rewards to registrar companies in places like Delaware and Nevada to out oligarchs as beneficial owners for non-transparent LLCs.
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Hotels/restaurants/etc still hosting this scum should be unable to process any transactions tomorrow:
“Hamas officials have quietly decamped to upscale hotels in Beirut, Doha and Istanbul…leading luxurious lives abroad while the economy collapses”
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It’s January 1, 2024 and the US Beneficial Ownership Information Registry is officially open.
I’m so deeply proud of the work we did over the years
@HudsonInstitute
/
@KleptocracyIntv
to help advance this vital national security measure.
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NEW: The UK Government has formally called on the US Congress to join it in tackling money laundering through shell companies by introducing a US corporate beneficial ownership register.
Read the letter from
@JohnPenroseNews
, PM Boris Johnson’s Anti-Corruption Champion, below.
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The Senate’s vote to override Trump’s shameful NDAA veto means the ban on anonymous ownership of US shell companies is now law.
It’s part of the biggest upgrade to US anti-money laundering and financial intelligence capabilities since 9/11.
Great news to start 2021! 🇺🇸
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As the Russian military expands, one group of Russians will remain exempt: children of the elite.
It’s a pattern that is well documented but not sufficiently well known—and one the US should do far more to publicize.
Good ideas here from
@ivanastradner
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Alex Saab is Nicolas Maduro’s financial fixer. He knows where all the money is and who stole it.
His extradition to the US is going to be a huge deal. I hope it results in the recovery of billions that rightfully belong to the Venezuelan people.
The Constitutional Court in Cape Verde has ruled there was nothing unconstitutional about the arrest last year of Nicolás Maduro's chief dealmaker Alex Saab, paving the way for his extradition to the US
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Pressure your governments for full sectoral sanctions on Russia’s financial sector first.
Then worry about SWIFT!
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Proud to become a citizen on
#ElectionDay
2020!
So grateful for the many kindnesses and opportunities Americans have shown me, especially ❤️
@JGSibley
.
Thanks to
@uscis
@SecBrouillette
for a warm welcome!
God bless America. And remember on this of all days: United we stand. 🇺🇸
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Why has
@netflix
removed
@TheMontyDon
French and Italian Gardens series? Do the fools realise how many people want to watch this stuff right now?!
And STILL no way to legally watch Monty’s Japanese and American Gardens in the USA.
Glowering at my daffodils until further notice.
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Upon entering politics in 2011, Bidzina Ivanishvili promised to sell his Russian businesses.
But thanks to
@Transparency_GE
we know that he lied.
In 2022 Georgia's ruling oligarch still controlled holdings there through shell companies and relatives.
🔗
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People who criticize sanctions should consider what lifting them would mean
Putin owning a penthouse in NYC, US firms partnering with Russian defense industry, etc etc
We would be endorsing and facilitating the evil actions of a regime that considers us its mortal enemy—insane
If sanctions aren’t working why are Russians always complaining so much about out them?
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NDAA is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
Also mandates a Treasury report on:
💸Identifying shell company owners
💸Expanding AML regime to lawyers/real estate/corporate services/trust providers (!)
💸Enhanced PEP screening
💸National US real estate ownership register
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Huge news from Canada, which becomes the latest country to fight money laundering by banning anonymous ownership of shell companies.
Like the UK/EU and unlike the US, the registry will be publicly accessible too!
Congrats to all who pushed for this.
We are thrilled to see the announcement for a publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry in
#Budget2021
Huge moment for Canada! Press release to follow
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Moldova's chief anticorruption prosecutor seized 3.5m leu ($1.8m) and detained 24 people after executing searches to uncover the funding behind recent anti-government protests organized by the pro-Russian Shor party... 👍🇲🇩
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Before dunking on FinCEN, remember the tiny agency tasked—effectively—with policing the integrity of the global financial system has an annual budget of just $120 million.
That’s less than the US government accidentally sends in benefits to dead federal employees each year.
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🎧💸 Pleased to announce the launch of a new
@KleptocracyIntv
podcast!
MAKING A KILLING will explore how authoritarian kleptocracy—and its facilitators in the West—are fueling the most serious threats to global security, prosperity and democracy.
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The new US “KleptoCapture” taskforce will focus on banks and other entities that have helped Russian oligarchs move money and evade US sanctions or continued to work with them.
So we’re finally going after “the Enablers”! Long overdue but welcome news.
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This massively increases pressure on the EU to add corruption to its own Global Magnitsky sanctions regime.
Not just for democratic solidarity but because this development will make it an even more attractive venue for kleptocrats and other criminals.
BREAKING: U.K. adds corruption sanctions to its Magnitsky Act, which brings it in line with the US and Canadian Magnitsky Acts and addresses the most pressing issue of kleptocracy worldwide. This has been a long time in the coming.
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@AndrewB60576581
@AmbLiuXiaoMing
Reported as fake account.
My regards to Mrs. B60576581 and the kids!
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The US spent two decades battling terrorist groups that aspired to statehood. Russia is a collapsing state that has degenerated into terrorism.
I wrote for
@NRO
on why the US should designate Wagner a foreign terrorist organization and Russia its sponsor.
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Putin's Russia has been the most notorious kleptocracy in the world for a decade or more.
How did these Western businesses think their work in that country would end?
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Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world.
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Take a step back from recent news cycles: America can and should be proud of its long tradition of global anti-corruption leadership.
Doesn’t mean we don’t still have work to do.
My remarks from
@KleptoCaucus
launch at
@HelsinkiComm
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“America’s frontline allies in [Asia] understand that what happens in Ukraine won’t stay there — it will either strengthen or weaken a larger global order on which they depend.”
@HalBrands
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“No one expected sanctions to prevent anything from happening.”
Sure
@POTUS
, when we only impose them after invasion.
Perhaps should have months ago, when constricting Russia’s economy might not have deterred Putin personally but created domestic problems to distract him.
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"My big worry is that a post-Putin junta fools the West, offering a 'reset...' The only acceptable peace must involve reparations, war-crimes trials, unchallenged NATO membership for Ukraine, and the return of occupied territories."
@edwardlucas
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“I’m brazenly committing serious human rights abuse but intend to keep using your currency, extracting bribes, and accessing the global economy.”
It’s what decades of Western acquiescence and complicity has taught authoritarian kleptocrats to expect, captured in just two tweets.
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Abramovich poisoned, Aven unable to pay chauffeur, Fridman exasperated—I’m seeing more oligarch sob stories…
Hope this won’t translate to leniency. They empowered and supported Putin, and bear guilt even if they are now powerless. Rats.
Save your sympathy for dead Ukrainians.
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This is truly excellent news and—finally—substantive action by the UK putting its money where its mouth is on rejecting authoritarian corruption. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Next up, overdue Companies House reform and a rollicking great Russia sanctions package please!
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Some great examples from
@RLHeinrichs
of how arming Ukraine is resuscitating America’s long-neglected defense industrial base—making us safer and supporting US jobs along the way.
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